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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.