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7. " In cases where the violence of the disease may render the measure ne-
cessary, Officers will halt altogether on any eligible spot within reach, or merely move
their Camp for change of air, and clean encamping ground, until it may appear advis-
able to move on. Whenever practicable, the Corps or Detachment should be broken
up into as many divisions as can be properly provided with medical aid, and separate
encampments formed one or two miles apart—measures being taken to prevent com-
munication.
8. " So long as Cholera exists in Camp, a daily report of cases and deaths is
to be forwarded to the Quarter Master General ; European and Native are to be
separately shown, and the names of all European Officers attacked or deceased, are to
be reported.
9. "In cases of extraordinary sickness, Officers Commanding Corps and
Detachments are authorized to indent upon Collectors, or the Commissariat Depart-
ment, for such number of country cots as may be absolutely necesssary.
10.
"When sufficient medical aid is available, and there is no Military
necessity for marching entire, Regiments will march by "Wings, at an interval often days.
11. " On every occasion of halt, orders should be issued and enforced for a
thorough washing of all the clothes and for the complete purification of the carts, and
the matting which forms the hood of the carts. Officers Commanding are especially
enjoined to see that these instructions are rigidly carried out, as it has been proved by
experience that this is one of the most effectual modes of preventing Cholera or of miti-
gating its attacks. In the Progress Report, it should be noted that this has been done.
Care should be taken that the water used for this purpose is not that used for drinking.
A guard should be invariably placed over the latter to prevent its contamination.
12. " Should Cholera attack the Regiment, it is desirable that a divergence
from the road of 4 or 5 miles should be made at right angles to the prevalent wind or
track of the disease. But this will seldom be practicable on account of the want of sup-
plies on a road on which notice has not been given.
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25. " With a view to preserving the conservancy of Camps and encamping
grounds, the Commander-in-Chief directs that the system.
Conservancy of Camps. should be adopted in Camp as is the practice in all Military
Cantonments, the main principle of which is, the daily burial of all refuse matter.
26. " It is therefore to be at once established as a Standing Order among all
European Troops moving in course of relief, or otherwise, that 2 trenches, each 2 feet
deep, 2 feet wide, and 50 feet long, are to be dug by coolies to be employed for the pur-
pose at a distance of 120 yards from the flanks of each encamping ground, the inward
flanks of such trenches to be 120 yards from the outward flanks of the Camp, that is, in
echellon ; but should the nature of the ground prevent their location according to this
rule, the same principle for their location is to be observed, that is, they are not on any
account to be directly in front or rear of the Camp, but in echellon on their flanks, be-
ing so placed that the prevailing wind is not to carry the effluvia to the Camp ; these
trenches are never to be in such proximity to wells as to make percolation to the water
possible.
27. "The Quarter Master, or whoever is entrusted with the formation of