The employment of Dhais, and insistance upon the performance of the acknowledged duties, is of great importance. The removal of women who are pronounced to be incurably diseased from cantonment limits, should be dealt with as a police question in communication with the civil authorities. In regard to the soldiers themselves, there are means at the disposal of Commanding Officers to enforce a more careful avoidance of contact with women who are diseased, where venereal is largely prevalent, the increase of the regimental police in controlling the movements of the men is imperative. Frequent medical inspections should be ordered, and every endeavour should be made to make the men realize their own responsibility in assisting their officers, by indicating the women from whom disease has been acquired. Much may be done to encourage a feeling amongst the men that it should be a point of honour to save each other where possible from risk in this matter. The medical inspection of all detachments before leaving or entering a cantonment should be enforced by General Officers. In conclusion, His Excellency desires me to impress upon all concerned the necessity for meeting the present difficulty by increased individual effort. However much legislation may be desired to check the spread of disease, it is necessary to abandon a sense of false modesty in dealing with the matter in question, and to recognise that, as in the case of all other diseases, its open treatment, and the widespread knowledge of its disastrous effects, are the surest means of effacing it in each locality. (By order) _E. F. Chapman_, Major General, Quartermaster General in India. [Transcriber's Note: The following text is the transcription of a page of a multi-part document.] RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (EAST INDIA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------