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exercised. It rests with the Military authorities to ask for the extension,
when a sufficient case can be made out for it.

   (3) Para. 15.—The point raised here was dealt with in clause 4,
para. 7, of the orders on last year's report, and the remarks there made
apply equally now. The matter is one for the president of the canton-
ment committee to determine.

   (4) Paras. 24-26.—The extension of the rules to the city and
suburbs of Lucknow is still under the consideration of the Government
of India.

   (5) Para. 35.—It is for the cantonment committee, in communi-
cation with the Military Department, to provide quarters for the hospital
assistant at Fyzabad, vide clause 8, para. 7, of orders on last report.

   (6) Paras. 39, 40, 41.—Of all stations Benares is the one where
failure has been most conspicuous, owing to the very great facilities en-
joyed by soldiers for intercourse with unregistered women. It is pro-
posed the registered women should be made to live together, and to sub-
sidise a sufficient number to induce them to do so. The Magistrate sees
no difficulty in this, but the Commissioner does not approve of the pro-
posal, which was made last year also. It seems to His Honor that if free
quarters could be arranged for, there would be no objection to the subsidy
taking this form. Direct money payments are certainly open to ob-
jection.

   (7) Paras. 44-5.—In clause 10, para. 7, of the orders on last year's
report, and also in the preceding year, it was stated that the location of
the Moradabad hospital within cantonments, instead of in the city, was a
matter for the cantonment committee to decide; and their attention
should again be drawn to the subject.

   (8) Para. 54.—It is for the Military authorities to decide whether
a rule should be laid down that a soldier who can truthfully point out
the woman from whom he contracted disease shall escape all punishment,
while a soldier who cannot do this shall be punished on account of his
diseased state. Such a rule is primâ facie open to question, and disease
is in most instances probably contracted from women met casually, whom
the soldier does not know and is not likely to see again.

   (9) Para. 59.— The cantonment committee should see that no avoid-
able delay is allowed to occur in the erection of the new hospital, if
sanctioned.

   (10) Paras. 59, 61, 62.—The harm eventually caused by the closing
of the hospital, merely on account of the temporary absence of troops,
will be brought to the notice of the Military Department: such an
occurrence is, however, probably rare, and not likely to be frequent.

   (11) It is for the Military authorities to see to the provision of
quarters for hospital servants at Naini Tal.

   (12) The attention of the Military Department may be drawn to the
remarks recorded by the Commissioner, that the unfavourable results at
Fatehgarh are due to want of energy on the part of the cantonment com-