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tered women in hospital could secure immunity from disease, immunity
would unquestionably be secured. As regards expenditure, attention was
lately drawn to the necessity of economy in management ; and although
the expenditure this year (1878) increased considerably, the increase was
due to causes beyond the power of the officers concerned to check, viz.,
dearness of provisions and a larger number of admissions. It is import-
ant that this fact, viz., that it is not the management of the hospitals that
is at all to blame for the miserable results of the year, be clearly recog-
nised. His Honor's own opinion is, and it is supported by such facts as
decrease of syphilis in Sháhjahánpur, and the mildness of the type of
disease in Cawnpore and Moradabad, that if the soldier had access only
to registered women, the results would be very satisfactory.

   6. In his 102nd para. Surgeon-Major Planck summarises, under 12
heads, the chief points claiming attention in the 1878 report. Some of
these are purely local, others involve questions of practice and principle.
In regard to these I am to note briefly as under :—

   (1) The city women in Cawnpore can only be on the cantonment
register, because they are visited by soldiers; and that being the case, the
cantonment funds must bear the cost.

   (2) and (3) These are questions the decision of which rests with the
Military authorities.

   (4) This point is referred to in para.12 of the letter from this office,
No. 700A., dated 9th August, 1878, to the address of the Government of
India, Home Department.

   (5) This also has been discussed in the same letter from this office to
the Government of India, vide para. 12. I am to refer to what was then
said on the subject.

   (6) This is a local question for the committee in communication
with the Quartermaster-General to decide.

   (7) This raises a question which the Military authorities alone are
competent to deal with. This Government drew attention (last sentence
of clause c, para. 14 of G. O. No. 700A.) to the necessity for making
soldiers, who transgressed the rules and cohabited with an unregistered
woman, suffer regimentally. The reference in para. 32 of the report
is to any case of a soldier suffering from syphilis ; but His Honor can-
not agree that it would be fair to impose such a penalty in all cases ;
such punishment should only follow cases of disease contracted from
unlicensed women. It might not be easy always to ascertain this ; but
in many cases it could, and to impose a penalty in such would be to a
certain extent a deterrent.

   (8) As to this, vide para. 42 of the Sanitary Commissioner's report,—
The Magistrate's suggestions, as to the constitution of the lock-hospital
committee, do not commend themselves to the Lieutenant-Governor and
Chief Commissioner ; but this is a matter for the Military Department to
decide. No reason is given why both the Cantonment Magistrate and the
District Magistrate should not be on the committee. No advantage would,