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Table No. 11.—Annual Statement No. III. of the Lock-Hospital at Sitapur
for the year 1877.

1. 2. 3. 4.
    Receipts. Expenditure. How paid.
Months. Registration fees from
prostitutes.		 Fines levied under the
rules.		 Total. Pay of medical officer. Pay of establishment. All other expenditure. Total expenses. By Government. From cantonment fund. Other sources. Total.
      Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. None. Rs. 1,627-4-1. None. Rs. 1, 627-4-1.
January ... ... 0 8 0 0 8 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 29 2 4 131 2 4
February ... ... ... ... 50 0 0 52 0 0 28 10 0 130 10 0
March ... ... 0 8 0 0 8 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 37 11 9 139 11 9
April ... ... 1 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 27 8 2 129 8 2
May ... ... 0 4 0 0 4 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 21 8 3 123 8 3
June ... ... 0 4 0 0 4 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 23 2 0 125 2 0
July ... ... 2 3 0 2 3 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 33 14 5 135 14 5
August ... ... 1 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 33 12 6 135 12 6
September ... ... ... ... 50 0 0 52 0 0 43 12 3 145 12 3
October ... ... 0 2 0 0 2 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 38 4 2 140 4 2
November ... ... 4 0 0 4 0 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 45 4 0 147 4 0
December ... ... ... ... 50 0 0 52 0 0 40 10 3 142 10 3
Total ... ... 9 13 0 9 13 0 800 0 0 624 0 0 403 4 1 1,627 4 1

      General summary and conclusion.—As far as can now be ascertained, there was
no such change in the character or amount of the venereal disease that obtained
in this garrison during the past year as calls for or would justify a special
record, and it may be assumed that there is a good deal of correspondence or
agreement between the complaints that are found amongst the licensed women
and those that are treated in our local military hospitals. This is not, however,
always the case, and the absence of it induced me to institute an inspection
of my charge in June last, which disclosed a good deal of latent disorder in
the same, and led to a correspondence on the subject of illicit prostitution and
police supervision. It also not unfrequently happens that women who are accused
by soldiers of infecting them are found to be healthy, and the occasional superven-
tion of gonorrhœa on an old standing gleet, or its recurrence after a bout of drink,
unusual effort, &c., goes far to prove that gonorrhœa is often as much the result of
a mechanical, i.e., of a catarrhal irritation of the urethra as it is of an impure
connexion or of a specific poison. However that may be, and this is clearly not the
place for a technical discussion of the point, I prefer acting on the latter supposition,
and accused women are accordingly ordered to be kept in for my personal inspec-
tion. If found diseased they are of course subjected to treatment on the spot, and
I am enabled to judge of the manner in which my instructions are subsequently car-
ried out by the results achieved in my absence by the native doctor and dhaie on
duty.

      Having now for the second time under treatment for gonorrhœa and mucous
papules a deaf, mute girl of a low type of mental organization, who is said to pros-
titute her person under trees, &c., for a few pice to all-comers, and having also under
my care another idiotic and epileptic woman, who is in a fearful state of filth and
destitution, I think it my duty to call special attention to this class of cases, and to
impress upon the civil authoris the propriety—nay, the necessity—of removing these
poor creatures to some place of shelter or of refuge wherein they may be protected
against themselves, and prevented from practising a calling for which they are so
obviously unsuited. These wretched women can scarcely be said to be responsible for
their actions; they must either sin or starve, and they are sowing infectious disease