_Précis of Circulars issued in the Quartermaster General's Department regarding the adoption of stringent Measures to reduce the chances of Venereal Disease spreading more widely amongst the Soldiers of the Army._ -----------------+------------------------------------------------------ Number and Date | PURPORT. of Circular. | -----------------+------------------------------------------------------ No. 43, dated | I. Officers commanding troops on the line of march to 20th July 1870. | ensure the effective inspection of prostitutes | attached to their regimental bazars. | | II. When any woman is found to be diseased, measures | are to be adopted for her isolation on the march, | and her transfer to the first or nearest Lock | Hospital for treatment. | No. 87, dated | Forwards a copy of a report by the Sanitary 20th November | Commissioner with the Government of India, reviewing 1871. | the working of the rules for the prevention of | venereal disease amongst British troops for the year | 1870, and calls special attention to the necessity | of officers commanding stations affording more | efficient and energetic means for preventing the | admission of casuals to the vicinity of the | barracks. | | Any increase of disease should at once be met by | increased energy on the part of Station and | Regimental authorities, and especially of Regimental | Police. | No. 51, dated | Forwards copy of a communication from the Government 23rd August | of India to that of Bombay, regarding the disposal 1872. | of incurable women attending Lock Hospitals, in | which the former approves of a proposal to employ an | incurable woman on small wages in the duties of the | hospital at Mhow. | No. 80, dated | Directs that the practice of levying registration 30th September | fees from prostitutes be discontinued. 1873. | | No. 90, dated | Calls attention to Circular No. 87 of 1871, and 8th July 1875. | strongly impresses upon Officers Commanding | Divisions, Districts, and Stations, the necessity | for strengthening the regimental police of corps | when venereal is on the increase at a station, it | being the general impression that the disease is | not, as a rule, contracted from the registered | women, but from unlicensed prostitutes who wander