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COPY OF CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM

Number and Date of
Circular.		PURPORT.
No. 35, dated
8th May 1876—contd.		II. The improvement of the conditions under which the women ply their trade, such as greater privacy, facilities for ablution, &c. &c.
III. The kind treatment of the women and every reasonable inducement being held out to them to attend the Lock Hospital when suffering from disease.
4. Commanding Officers of regiments and batteries are to report at once to the General Officer Commanding, when any increase of venereal disease occurs amongst their men. Such reports to show the supposed causes of the increase, and the measures adopted for its suppression, and after remark by the Deputy Surgeon General to be forwarded to the Quartermaster General’s Office.
5. The Lock Hospital Sub-Committee are to be assembled at least once a month, and their reports forwarded to General Officers Commanding.
6. It is considered that a Careful attention to these points will contribute considerably towards checking the spread of venereal disease, and His Excellency hopes that no effort will be spared by either Regimental, Medical, or Local authorities to ensure more satisfactory results than have hitherto been obtained.
No. 67, dated
19th August 1876.		The annual reports on the working of Lock Hospitals during the year 1875, show that much venereal disease was contracted when on the line of march; Commanding Officers’ attention should therefore be called to Circular No. 43 of 1870, and to the Medical Regulations which direct the Medical examination for venereal disease of every unmarried soldier on the day of his arrival at a new station from the line of march; and the effective inspection of the prostitutes accompanying the regimental bazars.
No. 11, dated
28th February 1878.		As it would appear that the great increase which prevails in a regiment on the line of march is attributable in a great measure to illicit prostitution, requests that the necessity for the exercise of greater care and vigilance on the line of march may be urged upon regimental authorities.
2. If necessary, some restriction should be placed on the men going out of camp, by posting picquets in different directions, and strengthening them when cases of venereal increase.
No. 68, dated
24th November 1880.		Draws attention to Circular No. 67 of 1876, and requests that the instructions therein contained regarding the medical examination of all unmarried soldiers on first arrival at a new station may be carried out, care being taken that the examination of the men is conducted with the utmost decency.
2. These medical examinations are of importance in detecting the existence and arresting the spread of venereal disease.
No. 23, dated
23rd April 1883.		Forwards for information and guidance an extract from a ruling of the Chief Court, Punjab, regarding the registration of women convicted of practising illicit prostitution.
No. 69, dated
26th November 1883.		The Commander in Chief requests that careful attention of Cantonment Committees and Lock Hospital Sub-Committees may be directed to the following points, wherever free quarters for registered women have been, or may hereafter be, established:—
2. Where cantonment funds can afford it, experienced and reliable Dhais should be employed to supervise the registered women.

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RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (EAST INDIA)

Number and Date of
Circular.		PURPORT.
No. 69, dated
26th November 1883
—continued.		3. Such Dhais should be well paid if the fund can afford it, and they should be held responsible that:— I. The women under their charge consort with none but Europeans. II. That they do not entertain a man in any house but the one allotted them as quarters; III. That a woman is sent to hospital immediately she is found to be diseased; IV. To ensure the latter, the Dhai should examine the women daily between the periodical inspections of the medical officer.
4. Soldiers who have been diseased by registered women, have been frequently known to attribute it to women met in their walks outside the bazaar, and the diseased woman has thus been allowed to practise her trade in this state for sometime without detection.
5. Every house should therefore be numbered outside, or in some conspicuous spot inside, and a soldier on reporting himself sick should not be required to personally point out the woman from whom he contracted the disease, but merely to give the number of her house.
6. If the Dhai does her duty, these measures should lead to the early detection of disease amongst registered women.
7. Each house should be provided with a urinal and means of ablution, and such other preventive measures, within the means of the Cantonment Fund, as suggest themselves to local committees should be freely resorted to.
8. His Excellency will be prepared to sanction any reasonable expenditure from cantonment funds on the measures therein suggested.
No. 42, dated
12th July 1884.		Requests that the attention of Officers Commanding Stations may be drawn to the desirability when constructing free quarters for registered women, of providing houses that will meet the wishes of the women.
2. Unless their comfort and the convenience of those who consort with them is considered, the results will not be satisfactory.