SANITATION DEPT.
No. 176 OF 1880.
FROM
THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,
N.-W. PROVINCES AND OUDH,
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,
HOME, REVENUE, AND AGRICULTURAL DEPT.
Dated Naini Tal, the 17th August, 1880.
SIR,
I AM directed to forward, for the information of His Excellency
the Governor-General in Council, the annual report on the working of
the lock-hospitals in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh for the
year 1879.
2.The following table shows the results of the year at each station
in regard to admissions of European soldiers into hospital, as compared
with the results of the previous five years and the average of five years
preceding the introduction of the present system:—
Number. | Station. |
Daily average strength of European garrrison in 1879. |
Admissions to hospital for venereal disease in 1879. |
Ratio of admissions to 1,000 of strength in 1879. |
Mean ration of preceding five years. |
Mean ration of five years previous to the opening of lock-hospitals. |
REMARKS. | ||
Gonorrhœa and minor forms of disease. |
Syphilis. | total. | |||||||
1 | Allahabad | 1,047 | 129 | 123 | 252 | 240.6 | 293.0 | 307.0 | |
2 | Cawnpore | 879 | 136 | 161 | 297 | 337.8 | 308.0 | 324.0 | |
3 | Agra | 776 | 192 | 75 | 267 | 344.0 | 233.0 | 212.0 | |
4 | Meerut | 944 | 63 | 149 | 212 | 224.5 | 190.0 | 324.0 | |
5 | Lucknow | 2,081 | 221 | 135 | 356 | 171.0 | 301.0 | 272.0 | |
6 | Bareilly | 831 | 156 | 125 | 281 | 338.1 | 187.0 | 228.0 | |
7 | Fyzabad | 449 | 57 | 14 | 71 | 158.1 | 318.0 | 287.0 | |
8 | Benares | 478 | 118 | 108 | 226 | 472.8 | 472.0 | 373.0 | |
9 | Moradabad | 198 | 39 | 34 | 73 | 368.7 | 241.0 | 300.0 | |
10 | Sháhjahánpur | 225 | 43 | 12 | 55 | 244.4 | 299.0 | 361.0 | |
11 | Ránikhet | 514 | 91 | 70 | 161 | 313.2 | 228.0 | *153.0 | * One year. |
12 | Sitapur | 208 | 25 | 21 | 46 | 221.1 | 348.0 | 342.0 | |
13 | Roorkee | 257 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 132.3 | 188.0 | 210.0 | |
14 | Jhánsi | 376 | 37 | 14 | 51 | 135.6 | 182.0 | 310.0 | |
15 | Naini Tal | 235 | 56 | 25 | 81 | 344.6 | 203.0 | 244.0 | |
16 | Muttra | 457 | 64 | 52 | 116 | 253.8 | 199.0 | 216.0 | |
17 | Chakrata | 307 | 41 | 21 | 62 | 201.9 | 133.0 | 142.0 | |
Total | 10,262 | 1,487 | 1,154 | 2,641 | 257.3 | 254.3 | 274.8 |
3. Of the 17 lock-hospitals in the North-Western Provinces and
Oudh, nine show—for the year under review—unsatisfactory results.
Taking them in the order (per 1,000) of admissions to hospital,—i.e., in
the ratio of disease,—they stand as under:—
Benares | 472.8 | |||||
Moradabad | 368.7 | |||||
Naini Tal | 344.6 | |||||
Agra | 344.0 |