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33. The Commissioner considers the results of the year's management most
unsatisfactory. The lock-hospital management exhibits results more satisfactory
than those of 1877 as regards the women. The undoubted cause of failure as regards
the European soldiery was the entire change of garrison, resulting in relaxation of regi-
mental rules as to the limits within which the soldiers are permitted to range.
The Commissioner is strongly convinced that for the efficient working of the lock
hospital system at Allahabad, the city and larger bazaars should be placed out of bounds
to the soldier, and that the regimental police should be made more efficient.
The Magistrate should endeavour to arrest the women reported to haunt the rest
camp and vicinity of barracks, and remove such of them as will not consent to
registration.
(5)—BAREILLY.
34. During the year 1878 a monthly average of 109 women remained on the
register against 95 in 1877. The result of the management was unsatisfactory as
compared with that of previous years. Far the five years, 1874-78, the ratios of venereal
cases per 1,000 of the European garrison at Bareilly have been 165, 140, 89, 142, and
213 respectively.
35. The Medical officer reports that at one time during the year, 45 patients
were present in the lock-hospital, which contains proper accommodation for only 25.
This overcrowding of patients was due to the sudden admission of 22 unregistered
prostitutes sent from the city for examination, and all found diseased. The medical
officer recommended the removal of these unregistered women to the poorhouse. The sub-
committee has assembled regularly. As the medical officer held charge of the hospital
only for the last six weeks of the year, he is unable to offer suggestions or comments on
the general working of the system. Still he records the opinion, that the venereal
disease of the year at Bareilly has been mild in type; that the lock-hospital system has
worked satisfactorily, the greatest portion of venereal disease amongst the soldiers
having been contracted from unregistered women who abound in and about can-
tonments. Almost all the unregistered women examined during the year have been
found diseased. Much still remains to be done for the prevention of illicit prostitution.
The medical officer believes that few soldiers know that a registered woman is in
possession of a ticket proving her freedom from disease.
36. The previous Medical Officer, on return to Bareilly, reports that the amount
of disease amongst the soldiers has been overstated in the medical officer's report, as
10 cases of transfers have been entered as new cases. Deducting these 10 cases and
20 cases contracted elsewhere, there remain a total of only 125 cases contracted at
Bareilly, and not 155 as the report states. The statement that few soldiers know of
a registered woman having a ticket is not in accordance with the fact, as printed
notices calling the attention of the soldiers to the existence of registered women have
been circulated to each regiment and suspended in the women's rooms.
The file contains no remarks on the management by the sub-committee or Canton-
ment Magistrate.
37. The Magistrate and Collector records that the year 1878 was one of
great scarcity and distress, and consequently many coolie and low-class women natural-
ly took to prostitution as a means of livelihood, meeting the soldiers in fields and
groves, and becoming a cause of disease to them. The Magistrate thinks want of
privacy and comfort in the registered women's rooms deters soldiers from visiting
them. Better results, he thinks, can be obtained only by more stringent regimental
police arrangements, and by continued endeavour to instruct the soldier as to the
dangers of illicit intercourse. With regard to the 22 diseased unregistered women,
whom the medical officer desired to send to the poorhouse, the Magistrate says that
200 such women could be found any day in Bareilly city, and that to accommodate.
them all, the lock-hospital accommodation would have to be increased a hundredfold.
The civil dispensary has neither funds nor accommodation for such cases.