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       4th.—That married Kunjar women were found to cohabit with soldiers in the
Kalassi lines of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, and that with these the
police were unable to interfere.

       5th.—That the men broke out of barracks at night time and entered the various
bazárs, &c., and cohabited with village and other women who were
aware of this.

       6th.—That the police have been negligent in their duties with respect to lock-hos-
pital rules, necessitating the degradation of a head-constable in one
case; and that regimental police, unless continually goaded, are averse
to spying after men, which the proper discharge of their duties would
entail, and are very spasmodic in their efforts in the prevention of a
matter in which they do not sympathise, and can see no good results
therefrom.

       The following is a table of venereal diseases for the year 1877:—

Statement showing the extent of various forms of venereal disease among the European
troops in the cantonment of Bareilly during the year 1877.

Regiment. Period of occu-
pation.		 Average strength
during period.		 Number of admissions from venereal disease
during the period of occupation.		 Ratio of ad-
missions per
 1,000 of
 strength.
1-18th, the
Royal Irish.		 12 months ... 583 Primary syphilis ... ... 22 125
Gonorrhœa... ... 49
Bubo gonorrhœal ... ... 1
Secondary syphilis... ... 1
Total ... 73
Royal Artil-
lery.		 11 months ... 130 Primary syphilis ... ... 14 215
Gonorrhœa ... ... 14
Secondary syphilis ... ... ...
Total ... 28
Attached men. 12 months ... 325 Primary syphilis ... ... ... 311
Gonorrhœa ... ... 1
Total ... 1
Grand Total ... 102
      Deduct transfers and cases contracted
on the march, &c., &c.		 11  
      Balance number of cases contracted at
Bareilly.		 91  

Grand total of admissions.

       The table shows the grand total of admissions for vene-
real disease contracted at Bareilly during the year to have
been 91.

Ratio of admissions per
1,000 of strength.

       The average strength was 716, therefore the ratio of
admissions per 1,000 of strength was 126.6.

       Were it not that so many and unexpected causes, as explained before, have
given rise to so serious an increase of disease, I would feel greatly disheartened at
the results of this year; but as it is, I feel assured that a very largo proportion of this
disease was not contracted from registered women, but was the result of, and is
distinctly to be laid to the door of, the famine and its consequences. It must also
be considered that in a disease of this nature fluctuations must be expected, and that
it is only by time the benefits of the lock-hospital system can be estimated.

       In looking over the ratio of admissions per 1,000 for the last six years I find
that the year 1877 ranks fourth.

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