If you hate travel curbs, see this order from 1900 The 72-year-old has preserved several such documents, including palm leaf manuscripts and diaries, which he inherited from his ancestors. Share Via Email | A+A A- By Express News Service MALAPPURAM: Reluctant to obey travel restrictions? Unnikrishnan Namboothiri from Palasseri Mana near Manjeri has a piece of advice. Armed with a newspaper cutting with a report on similar curbs imposed by one G H B Jackson for then Malabar district collector during the spread of plague in the country in 1900, he points out that such curbs were used to tackle crisis situations similar to Covid pandemic in the olden times too.