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**[https://archive.org/stream/queensdaughters00butlgoog#page/n19/mode/1up Regimental brothels] page 15. These were set up under the Cantonment Act 1864.
:Investigation and Report by two American missionaries into the government sanctioned brothels in British Army cantonments. It is believed the authors visited India after the Cantonment Act of 1889, perhaps c early 1890s.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21933467#page/n27/mode/2up The Cantonment Act of 1897], page 12 ''A Manual of Venereal Diseases'' by Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1907 Archive.org. A report on Venereal Disease in the Army, with many references to India. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_EPx61RSTtQC 2nd edition, 1913] is Searchable and should be available full view in North America etc. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/undersurface00martuoft ''Under the Surface''] by L [Louisa] Martindale, M.D., B.S. 2nd edition, first published c 1907 has two chapters relevant to prostitution in cantonments in India. [https://archive.org/stream/undersurface00martuoft#page/54/mode/2up Chapter V] appears to imply the system was still in existence in 1907, and refers to the Cantonments Code of 1899
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n80/mode/1up Page 76] ''Footslogger An Autobiography'' by Graham Seton (Lieutenant- Colonel G S Hutchinson) 4th Impression 1933 Archive.org. C 1911, it was the duty of the Regimental Orderly Officer to close the gates of the Government-controlled brothels at closing time. The author was in the [[25th Regiment of Foot| King's Own Scottish Borderers]] at [[Ranikhet]].
:[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55050012 "Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot"] by Joel Gunter and Vikas Pandey c 12 December 2020. BBC News.
:The book ''The Brilliant and Tragic Life of W. M. W. Haffkine, Bacteriologist'' by Selman A Waksman, published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1964 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003831470
*[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag1910-v25/page/581/mode/2up "A Remarkable War. Plague Fighting in Bombay"] by Dr J A Turner, Medical Officer of Health, Bombay page 582 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 25 1910 May-October''. Archive.org
*For reports on Rats in connection with plague research, see [[Scientific books online]]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dUFYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Notes ... for the guidance of troops and all others proceeding into the Hill Tracts of the Northern Circars. [With a letter on the same subject from E. A. Samuells<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by George Thomas Haly 1855 Google Books. Regarding malaria treatment (in an area in Madras Presidency along the western side of the Bay of Bengal)
