The Bombay Plague Committee
The committee that led the fight against plague in Bombay in 1897, with General W. F. Gatacre as chairman. Its parties searched houses for the sick, and it ran plague hospitals and disinfected houses.
The Plague Act and the House Searches, Bombay 1897
R. Nathan, comp., The Plague in India, 1896, 1897 (Simla: Government Central Printing Office, 1898) · 1898 (events of October 1896–April 1897)
“ This meeting declares that all sane and intelligent Sunni Muhammadans are ready at all times to obey Government orders not in conflict with their religion, but they can neither agree to, nor aid and abet in, the forcible removal of the sick to the hospital, and his compulsory separation from all or some of the members of his family with whom he used to live together, owing to its being directly opposed to their Sunni Muhammadan religion.” A protest and a copy of the resolution was then forwarded to the Plague Committee.
“This meeting declares that all sane and intelligent Sunni Muhammadans are ready at all times to obey Government orders not in conflict with their religion, but they can neither agree to, nor aid and abet in, the forcible removal of the sick to the hospital, and his compulsory separation from all or some of the members of his family with whom he used to live together, owing to its being directly opposed to their Sunni Muhammadan religion.” A protest and a copy of the resolution was then forwarded to the Plague Committee.