The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.

THRILL is no doubt whatever about the ability
of the State to do much that has never yet been
tried to preclude and to check the vice and disease
which, by their effect on the strength of our army,
have lately excited so much alarm. There is un-
questionably a strong call for zeal and diligence
before we commit ourselves to a scheme of special
quarantine infinitely more mischievous than any
quarantine system that ever was tried. It would
be abundantly absurd in any nation to betake
itself now to the old quarantine, in the face of .11
exposures of its constant failure, and before
having recourse to sanitary measures of proved
efficacy ; yet this, and worse than this, is what
we should be doing if we now committed ourselves
to a system of medical police before exhausting all
experiments which might save us from succumbing
to the force of a corruption which no manly and
pure heart regards as necessary.
There is no phase of this difficulty in which
there is not something that the State can do, and
that has hitherto been left undone. Under the
aspect of physical or moral treatment, with pre-
vention, amelioration, or cure for the aim, unob-
jectionable methods remain to be adopted.
Let us take prevention first—prevention both
of the vice and the disease.

The one thing that seems never to have oc-
curred to the rulers of the soldier's destiny
is to apply themselves to preclude. tempta-
tion ; whereas on this depends every hope
of surmounting the whole difficulty. In
a kindred case the action of the State was di-
rected, not spinet passion but temptation. Lord
CAMPBELL'S Act against licentious literature is a
full recognition of the principle of beginning at the
beginning, and forbidding wanton provocation of
the passions. So far is the State at present from
doing even thus much on behalf of the soldier's
self-respect, that it opens the door wide to every evil
passion thatroams through society, seeking whom it
may devour. Oar young soldiers have not enough
to do ; and what they have to do is irksome. The
very last tortures of ennui are experienced in
depot, in camp, in barrack ; and while there is,
generally speaking, no provision made for the
rational and profitable eccupation and pleasant
recreation of the soldiers, the whole world of
licence is thrown open to men wearied with idleness,
desperate with dulness, and craving the relief and
luxury of jollity. " The idle men are always the
" worst," we are informed on authority; and
there is no doubt that the soldiers who were ar-
tisans before they entered the army, and who are
so fortunate as to be allowed (as some are in India)
to occupy their leisure is pursiOng their art for
their own profit, are steadier, healthier, and hap-
pier than the poor fellows who can find nothing to
do so attractive as repairing to low drinking-
houses, and going the round of unlawful pleasures
there. This is a sort of doom to the common run
of young soldiers where there are no privileges of
school, reading-room, active games in the day and
innocent ones in the evenings, harmless refresh-
ment rooms, and a brisk sociality in the midst of
comfort, to be had without transgression, and with
an actual promotion of respectability.
This is not the only way in which the State
may apply itself to deal with temptation rather
than passion. It must protect the soldier's health
before he has fallen into the abyss, instead of only
doing what can be done afterward'. A state of
health and vigour such as belongs to pure air,
wholesome food, quiet sleep, and due exercise of
body and mind, is always and everywhere favour-
able to respectability ; and a languid, restless, and
suffering state of body is in itself a temptation to
vice when the way is open. As for the other
direction taken by precaution—that which deals
with passion—the plainest and most pressing
duty is to suppress the brothels altogether, and
punish with all practicable severity the proprietors
and abettors of that intolerable nuisance. If these
houses were treated as Thieves' Homes are, society
would have a better conscience than it has, and
our soldier", as well as the re.t of the manhood of
the country, would have • better chance in life.
And there is no evidenoe--really none whatever—
that any new evils would arise, or that any would
remain so fatal as what would be got rid oL
So much may be regarded as the morel treat-
went of the case. In the physical, there is quite
as much to be done which is as yet unattempted.
That much of the disease which, wording
to high medical testimony, is the result of
dirt (as small-pox and other epidemics are
where contagion is out of the question) ought, of
mune, to be precluded by good sanitary manage-
ment. How far • thorough and universal clean/i-
-nem might save society from the ravage of various
contagious diseases, and this among them, will
never be known till the experiment is tried ; but
it would be better to resort to this experiment on
behalf of the army than to that of giving a police
recognition and legal protection to vice. Another
very important point is to provide the highest pro-
fessional skill for the whole treatment of
the diseased and the endangered. It is said,
openly and on high authority, that our army medi-
cal officers are unsuccessful in the treatment of
this order of disease, and that there is a needle s
loss of time and strength accordingly. The
remedy for this is a better instruction and more
effectual study in the Army Medical SohooL The
Dvaxeroa-GriczeAL ought to see to this as an
improvement immediately and urgently needed.
The soldiers that taken the beet care of in their

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