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VI.
ing the site of every hut and tent separately, connecting the
hut and tent drains with the larger trenches. In this way,
The condition in which the water was drawn for use in
not only are the sites and the vicinity of the huts and tents
the camp, was likely, especially during the prevalence of
kept comparatively dry, but the surface water is more
cholera, to aggravate the severity of the disease, although
readily removed, the exhalations from the damp soil dimin-
not to a great degree.
ished, and the air purified. The experience of the army in
It is always desirable that water for drinking and cooking
the Crimea showed the very beneficial effects of this surface
purposes should be, as nearly as possible, destitute of color,
drainage and trenching on the health of the troops.
taste, or smell. Anything that interferes with these three
3. Dampness of the air, arising from the nature of the
natural tests is more or less injurious to health ; but marsh
locality, proceeds from the topographical peculiarities of the
water, however apparently pure, is not wholesome.
ground preventing a free circulation of the air, and the at-
All engineering works for supplying camps with water
mosphere becoming stagnant, and charged with moisture
should comprehend :
and emanations from the ground. The valley of Karani,
The selection of the purest obtainable source.
above Kadikoi, afforded an illustration of this, in certain
The delivering the water for use as pure as it is at its
states of the weather.
source.
It was observed in other parts of the seat of the war in
If it be necessary to pound the water, the tanks should
the East, that damp white mists, settling in valleys or hol-
be covered.
lows occupied by troops, had been the precursors of epidemic
Water should, if practicable at all, never be drawn by
diseases, especially of cholera. All valleys are at times ex-
dipping, if it be rendered muddy in the act of being so
posed to similar occurrences, especially such as contain
drawn.
stagnant lakes. An unhealthy and stagnant state of the air
If a source of water of sufficient purity be not obtainable,
is sometimes increased by brushwood or trees.
the water should be filtered. A filter may be made with
There is often no escape from epidemic sickness occurring
sorted gravel, clean sand, and charcoal.
among troops from the occupation of such positions ; they
Every trough for supplying horses should have a separate
should, therefore, be avoided or abandoned.
inlet and overflow.
III.
2
The evils resulting from these local causes of dampness
were not unfrequently aggravated by the manner of pitch-
ing tents and erecting huts. Want of due preparation of the
ground, and defective drainage of the site, often led to a
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