“With regard to your inquiry regarding the number of cases treated in these sanitaria we use these hill stations not only for the treatment of convalescents, but also for giving healthy men an opportunity of spending the Indian hot weather under the best climatic conditions procurable. To this end, so far as is practicable, all units are sent to the hills for the first hot weather after their arrival in India, and they are thus able to settle down to their new conditions of life without being immediately exposed to the trying and enervating environment of a plains station in the summer months. We also send as many soldiers as we can of the older residents from hot stations to summer in the hills.
“Practically all soldiers’ wives and families are given an opportunity of a change from the more unhealthy stations to the hills during the hot weather.
“Our experience shows that the following cases are most benefited by a change to the hills:—
“1. All cases of malarial fever and malarial cachexia.
“2. Patients recovering from acute diseases.
“3. Convalescents after surgical operations.
“4. Cases of anaemia and debility.
“5. Cases of chronic venereal diseases.