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   A condition of disease generally accounted for in the reports by the fact that
soldiers communicated disease to the registered women, or that they contracted disease
from native men, whose visits they were obliged to receive as a means of livelihood
when the soldiers neglected them. This is most plainly shown in paras. 25 and 81.

   And the circumstance adds great force to the opinion that the successful manage-
ment of the lock-hospital system depends in greatest measure upon the action of
commanding officers. The women of the system must live, and if the soldier is able
to neglect them by reason of easy access to other women, native men step in to take
his place—to the increase of disease amongst the women and injury to such soldiers
as continue to support them.

   102. The points which call for special attention in this report are :—

   1st.—The request of the Cantonment Committee at Cawnpore, that the cantonment
lock-hospital funds should be relieved from the expense of maintaining city women
while in hospital (para. 5).

   2nd.—The necessity of requiring that change of garrison shall not necessitate
change of rules found necessary for the welfare of the soldiers of the previous garri-
son (paras. 6, 7, 30, 33).

   3rd.—The advantage likely to result from careful medical inspection of all soldiers
on arrival at a new station (paras. 12, 58, 58½, 59).

   4th—The settlement of the question as to whether the lock-hospital at Lucknow
is to be a certified hospital under the Contagious Diseases Act (para. 16).

   5th.—The request of the Lucknow Cantonment Magistrate for sanction to rule
submitted to Government for better control of women residing outside the cantonment
boundary (paras. 20, 21, 22, 23).

   6th.—The urgent requirement for increased accommodation in the Allahabad
lock-hospital (para. 30).

   7th.—The possible advantage of punishing a diseased soldier by loss of pay
(para. 32).

   8th.—The important recommendation of the Collector of Meerut, that the whole
control of lock-hospital administration should rest entirely with the Officer Command-
ing the Station.

   The President and Members of the sub-committee to be combatant officers of
the forces present ; the Cantonment Magistrate not to be a member, but to effect the
wishes or orders of the committee ; the Medical Officer to be a Military surgeon
(para. 42).

   9th.—The propriety of supplying suitable accommodation to the medical assistant
attached to the Fyzabad lock-hospital (para. 45).

   10th.—The necessity of removing the Moradabad lock-hospital from the city to
cantonment (paras. 54 to 56).

   11th.—The propriety of providing better accommodation for the registered women
at Chakráta (para. 67).

   12th.—The necessity of providing better accommodation for the medical subor-
dinate attached to the Naini Tal hospital, and kutcha huts for the servants.