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regretted that these valuable measures are not now in 

 operation. 



More than half of the English army in India are at 

 present, it appears, regularly incapacitated by venereal 

 disease. The actual numbers are 522 men per thousand, 

 as compared with an average of only 30 in the armies 

 of the great Continental Powers, who have the wisdom 

 to enforce strict sanitary regulations. These figures 

 indicate a very serious state of things in India, and, in a 

 lesser degree, in this country as well, partly through India, 

 but also from similar causes operating in our garrison 

 towns and great centres of population. Hundreds of men 

 are being turned loose from every troop-ship that returns 

 from India unfit for military duty or any other efficient 

 work, but not unfit to disseminate the disease they them- 

 selves have contracted. In the interests of the community 

 generally this state of affairs calls for the immediate 

 attention of the Legislature. 



