similar scale, to which generally they should be sent on " I have no hesitation therefore in earnestly recom- changes of weather, from electricity or from the want placing them in the first instance at Dimhutty, or bring- dence, as I have tried the experiment by sending seve- unnecessary that all cases indiscriminately be submitted hutty for European soldiers, to contain from twenty-five to thirty-five men, and quarters for sick officers on a their first arrival, and retained there till their cure is sufficiently advanced to admit their bearing with im- ing them at once to Oatacamund it being obviously other hand, to which they might be transferred from the mending for the consideration of the Committee, the " With a view to ensure a proper selection of cases, most beneficial results. ral invalids from Oatacamund to Kotagherry at the punity the further change to Oatacamund, or on the render such a change advisable. latter place, when bad weather or other circumstances the establishment of a subordinate sanitarium at Dim- they might all be submitted to the Superintending Me- commencement of the southwest monsoon, with the propriety of obtaining the sanction of government for of exercise on this head I speak with the more confi- APPENDIX. 121 from one to the other, cases which suffer from sudden dical Officer, for him to decide as to the prudence of