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       10. The number of women on the register during the year has been on an
average 129.73, much too small a number for such a large place and for such a large
population; but the women have a great dislike to being registered, and evade it as
much as possible. Attempts have been made from time to time to increase the number
on the register, but have always met with great opposition, the women frequently
employing lawyers to defend.

       11. The area over which the lock-hospital rules extend includes the whole of
the cantonments and the space enclosed by a line drawn round the cantonments at a
distance of four miles.

       12. No registration fees were levied.

       13. The number of absentees from the weekly inspections during the year was
692. These were reported to the cantonment magistrate, and one was fined and seven
imprisoned. The number reported includes women who were reported week after
week for absence, until at last they were struck off the register.

       14. The examinations are held weekly, both at the lock-hospital and at a small
house in the city, and are conducted on consecutive days, so that a woman who may
be unable to be present on one day can attend on the following, also for the convenience
of those women who would have a long distance to travel if there were only one place
for examination.

       15. Sickness among the women as compared with the two previous years:—

As a rule, there is not much disease of a serious nature amongst the registered women,
though the number of admissions appears large. They are taken into hospital for slight
causes, and disease is thus often checked at its outset, which if not taken in time might
assume a more formidable character.

       16. The worst cases of disease are almost always found in unregistered women,
who ply their trade on the roads leading to the barracks and in topes of trees, &c.,
in the vicinity of cantonments. The difficulty of detecting these women is very great,
but when caught they are almost invariably found to be diseased.

       17. Dhais for the purpose of giving information or detecting prostitutes have
not been employed.

       18. Fourth-class native doctor Híralál has been attached to the hospital for
nearly nine years. I have known him for two and a half years, during which period his
conduct has been most satisfactory. He has a good knowledge of his profession, in
addition to which his temper and tact in managing a peculiar class of patients render
him very well suited for his present post.

W. ASHTON, M.B., SURGEON-MAJOR,       
In medical charge of Lock-Hospital.