enforce the prompt

[Pavel Pin]

Walter is volunteered to a place to treat Cholera patients. So people are burying the corpses near the water bodies otherwise Warlord will send his army. Walter said to Warlord who is leader of that place:

Our plan is to divert the water to the town from the fields upriver...above the burial grounds. With your permission and the assistance of your troops...the graves will be moved away from the water. And Colonel Yu and his men...will enforce the prompt burial of the dead...maintaining the integrity of the water sources...and enforcing proper sanitation over the next few weeks.

What is the meaning of "enforce the prompt"?

Source: The Painted Veil 2006

 

[elroy]

“Prompt” is an adjective modifying “burial.” “Burial” is the object of “enforce.”

 

[Pavel Pin]

“Burial” is the object of “enforce.”

What does it mean?

 

[elroy]

enforce the burial = make sure the burial happens = see to it that the burial happens

 

[Pavel Pin]

word prompt is useless in this context?

 

[elroy]

It’s not. They will make sure the burial happens promptly.

 

[Pavel Pin]

Excellent, Thank you so much