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that the discontinuance of examination under be compulsory she act, would probably be followed by disastrous results to the health of our Naval and Military Forces stationed here unless some other preventive measures were adopted in its place.
The women which supply the unfortunate class referred to are of the lowest order, and are naturally extremely dirty in their habits, so that if cleanliness was not enforced by stringent regulation of some kind which this examination supplies, the horrible disease to which they are liable would thus be planted in a fertile soil, and being unchecked in its course would most likely degenerate into a virulent type, and seriously affect the health of our men as it did in former days.
In this Colony it is especially important to keep our Sailors and Soldiers in good health and vigour, as in cases of sickness, invaliding to their home cannot so easily be supplied as at home and a