RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (EAST INDIA) -----------------+------------------------------------------------------ Number and Date | PURPORT. of Circular. | -----------------+------------------------------------------------------ | No. 69, dated |3. Such Dhais should be well paid if the fund can 26th November | afford it, and they should be held responsible 1883 | that:-- --_continued._ | | 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 | Requests that the attention of Officers Commanding 12th July | Stations may be drawn to the desirability when 1884. | constructing free quarters for registered women,