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   The compulsory registration of unlicensed women, arrested for prostitution with
European soldiers, and their admission to the benefits of the lock hospital, is a mistake.
These women should be punished by imprisonment. At present they intercept gains
than should come to the registered women, and share the benefits of medical treatment
which rightly belong only to the registered women.

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     51. During the year 1879 a monthly average of 49 women remained on the
register against 64 in 1878.

     52. The results of the management have been unsatisfactory.

     The ratios of admissions to hospital for venereal disease amongst the European
garrison for the six years, 1874-79, have been 166,162, 98, 115, 374, and 369 per
1,000 of strength respectively.

     53. The Medical Officer reports that the lock hospital is inconveniently situated
in the city, and at a considerable distance from the cantonments.

     The sub-committee has assembled regularly.

     The decrease in the average number of women registered has probably been due
to the adoption, by some of the women, of other ways of life, as the period of scarcity
passed away. The registered women were examined three times a month, and the
hospital accommodation and arrangements are satisfactory.

     The great prevalence of ague disease prevented a very regular attendance of the
women for examination.

     The prevalence of venereal disease amongst the soldiers was due to intercourse
with unregistered women.

     The attention of the authorities was called to this source of disease during the
year. And, as a result, one unregistered woman, suffering from severe syphilis, was
arrested.

     The Medical Officer recommends a change of situation of the lock hospital from
the city to cantonments, to ensure more careful supervision.

     54. The Magistrate of the district thinks the results of the year's working unsatis-
factory on the whole.

     But notes, as a redeeming feature, that only 12 cases of primary syphilis occurred
amongst the soldiers in 1879 against 38 in 1878, and the 22 cases of secondary
syphilis reported in 1879 were probably the sequels of disease contracted in 1878.

     Excessive vagrancy, the cause of so much disease in 1878, still operated in 1879.
The police have no power to arrest vagrant women suspected of being diseased, yet
there is every reason to believe that the prevalence of disease amongst the troops is
traceable to intercourse with vagrant pauper women.

     The Cantonment Committee have not taken measures to obtain sanction for the
removal of the lock hospital from the city to cantonments, and the Magistrate thinks
that expenditure in this direction would not result in any decrease of disease amongst
the soldiers, because of their preference for cheap promiscuous intercourse with vagrant
women.

     55. The Commissioner is of opinion that the lock hospital should be estab-
lished within cantonments. Power cannot be given to the police to arrest city
women suspected of disease. The women to guard against are really those of out-
lying villages, and the measures necessary to prevent the soldiers meeting them are
in the hands of the military authorities.