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soldiers contract disease not from registered but from unregistered
women.

   8. As regards the soldiers themselves, the four great causes of
failure are summed up by Dr. Planck as follows :—

   (1) The continuance of the soldiers' power or opportunity of con-
sorting in or about cantonments with the women of the country who are
not protected by registration.

   (2) The license in this matter enjoyed by soldiers on the march.

   (3) The opportunity permitted to soldiers in camp to consort with
women of the neighbouring villages.

   (4) The continuance of the opportunity or necessity experienced by
the registered women to receive the visits of native men.

   In paras. 94 to 100 he quotes a mass of evidence, taken from the re-
ports, to illustrate the evils arising under each of these heads, over which
the Military authorities can alone exercise control. So long as soldiers
cannot be prevented from having recourse to unregistered women, no
amount of attention to lock hospitals and to registered women can have
any appreciable effect in diminishing disease, Whether the numerous
suggestions made in the report under this head are practicable or not,
is for the Military authorities to decide. It is perfectly clear in what
direction reform is required, and on this point the report leaves no room
for doubt. It is worthy of remark that at several stations, when disease
became unusually prevalent, it is said to have been nearly put a stop to
by the adoption of rigorous measures on the part-of Commanding Officers ;
and the Sanitary Commissioner's comments on this in paras. 106-7 deserve
the attentive consideration of the Military authorities.

   9. The cantonment committees at Agra, Benares, Moradabad,
Fatehgarh, and elsewhere, should see if measures cannot be devised to
induce registered women to live together in one locality, as suggested
in para. 108.

   10. The points which call for the especial notice of Government
are set forth in para. 109.

   (1)  Para. 2.—The situation of the Allahabad lock hospital is
inconvenient, both for the women and for the medical officer. The
accommodation, moreover, is insufficient in the cold season, three women
having to occupy the space required by two : there is room for 18 persons,
but the daily average of sick women has been 25. It is for the canton-
ment committee to arrange that suitable and sufficient accommodation
is provided.

   (2)  Para. 8—Dwells on the necessity of bringing the villages
near the Cawnpore cantonments effectually under the lock hospital
rules. Any extension of the Act beyond cantonments requires the
sanction of the Governor-General in Council. In most stations the com-
plaint is made that it is useless to have it in force in cantonments alone,
and not in adjoining cities and suburbs to which soldiers have ready
access. There are many objections, however, to extension from a civil
point of view, and the power to order it has hitherto been sparingly