The word cantonment means a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters.
Hospital buildings were of cantonment-type construction, housing seven wards with a total capacity of 125 beds.
The work on the new cantonment is well in hand, but the date on which the accommodation for troops will be ready cannot be forecasted with any accuracy.
Presumably in that cantonment there will be married quarters.
One quarter of the cantonment area is destroyed, the remaining three-quarters are slightly damaged, but inhabitable.
The offices of civil veterinary, agriculture and cantonment inspectors-general are to be abolished.
I understand that the estimated cost of the cantonment is in the region of £2 million.
Women and children have been restricted as far as possible to cantonment limits, and other special precautions have been introduced where they were considered necessary.
