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The Whitehaven News - September 30, 1869
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THE ADMIRALTY AND THE LADIES.

We subjoin an Admiralty circular just issued, which will be read with
curious interest by officers in Her Majesty's navy: - "Admiralty, September,
1869. - Great inconvenience as well as injury to the discipline of Her
Majesty's service arising from the circumstance that the wives of officers
and their families in many instances live on board Her Majesty's ships, the
Lords of the Admiralty have directed that in future no lady shall be
permitted to reside on board  Her Majesty's ships without the express
consent of the Admiralty, or, if on a foreign station, of the
Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's ships on the station.  This permission,
if accorded at all, will only extend to allowing ladies to be conveyed
occasionally from one part of a station to another, and each such case is to
be specially reported.  However, should the captain of any of Her Majesty's
ships deem it his duty to comply with any formal requisition which he may
receive from an Ambassador, Minister, Charge-d'Affaires, Governor or
Lieutenant-Governor of a colony to embark or take to sea any woman, he will
immediately report the circumstance to his senior officer, and if not under
the orders of any senior officer, direct to the Secretary of the Admiralty.
This prohibition will not for the present extend to the Britannia
training-ship for naval cadets. - (Signed) VERNON LUSHINGTON."

CHOLERA IN INDIA.
Painful reports continue to be received from Lucknow regarding the health of
the regiments quartered there.  Two or three are said to die every day in
one or other of the corps.  The 'Lucknow Times' has been "credibly informed"
that in the 62d Regiment no less than forty-five men had succumbed to the
pestilence between the 1st and 18th August.  the 102d Regiment is also said
to have been losing two or three every day.  Moreover, the 'Lucknow Times'
states it as a remarkable fact "that during the present severe visitation
not one single person attacked has overcome the inexorable demon.  All have
perished, notwithstanding the trial of new scientific discoveries, among
them Dr. Young's injection of spirits of ammonia under the skin.  This
experiment, however, has in a few instances expelled cholera, but the
patient has subsequently died, either from the fever that follows, or from
the intense heat experienced in the tents in which the patients are placed."

The 'Delhi Gazette' of August 14 says:  "Cholera had by the end of last week
spread in a very malignant form over nearly the whole town of Umritsur,
carrying off no fewer than between seventy and ninety victims per day.
Considerable alarm naturally prevailed amongst the inhabitants, as the
diease had found its way into quarters hitherto free, and into the houses of
the better class of the inhabitants, many of whom are thinking and even
talking of emigrating."  A telegram from Umritsur, of later date, informs
the'Delhi Gazette' that the deaths from cholera there were 104 on the 13th;
108 on the 14th; and 96 on the 15th of August.  A correspondent writes to
the 'Delhi Gazette' from Morar, on the 12th August: - "I am sorry to say
cholera is again prevalent here, and in the fortress of Gwalior.  The wife
of Lieutenant Stoddard succumbed last night, and Dr. Hales, whose exertions
have been most unremittring, is dangerously ill.  These cases occured in the
fortress.  At headquarters two companies are in camp."

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