(   2   )
nothing can be gained, as the populations dealt with are very small, and the absence
of lepers would not show immunity of a district any more than one or two or
many cases, as in the Central Prison, would indicate its exceptional prevalence.
6.    In the first returns submitted the figures could  not  be  totalled  so  as to
give a general summary, as in some the total  population and number of lepers  was
given, whilst in others the number of sick in hospital and of lepers was entered.
7.    In the subjoined statement the jail  population  and  number of lepers,  as
they stood on 30th June 1876, is given for each jail.
	

On 30th June 1876
Ration per 1000 of lepers
Hereditary
Not Hereditary

Population
Lepers



Lucknow central prism
1,716
20
11.65
...
20
Ditto District Jail
637
2
3.14
...
2
Unao
229
...
...
...

Bara Banki
580
...
...
...
...
Fyzabad
609
5
8.2
2
3
Bahraich
265
...
...
...
...
Gonda
465
...
...
...
...
Rai Bareli
588
...
...
...

Partabgarh
450
...
...
...
...
Sultanpur
428
...
...
...
...
Sitapur
506
2
3.9
...
2
Kheri
208
1
4.8
...
1
Hardui
365
2
5.5
...
2
Total
7,046
32
4.5
2
30

8.    The ratio 4.5 per mille is very high,  and  would  give, if true,  somewhat
about 50,000 lepers in the Province ; but the circumstances of jail must be  looked
on as exceptional, especially those of the Central   Prison,  as will be  evident if we
examine at the figures  in   the  next table.    Thus  in  Fyzabad  the  ratio for  the
district is 1.3, whilst that for the jail is 8.2.
9.    To arrive at an  accurate idea  of the  prevalence  of leprosy not  only in
every district, but also of its greater or less prevalence in different portions of each,
would necessitate a lepers' census-a matter of great difficulty and likely in the end
to be very far from correct, as I think is very evident from the return obtained from
Unao, the only district in which it was tried.
10.    The other alternative, that of guessing at the prevalence from the number
of lepers found within certain towns and villages, or  areas  of limited extent,  was
tried in the remaining districts, from which returns have been submitted.
From Partabgarh and Hardui no information at all has been given.