An estimated 22,000 women and children, for example, are supposed to have lived on the outskirts of the Hankah camp near Abū Za‘bal. Ultimately, however, and mainly for health reasons, this practice was stopped, the shanty-towns appended to the camps were dismantled, and strict regulations were enforced preventing the soldiers from having access to their families.

XREF: Complements an earlier highlight claiming bureaucratic rules, not health, drove dismantling camps' family shantytowns — here the text gives health as the stated reason, showing the two rationales coexisting. Builds on: "Egyptian military law lacked provisions governing sodomy in 1824."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 657