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   3. The Cantonment Magistrate reports the results as less satisfactory than last
year. The infantry suffered more than the artillery.

   During the months of September and December the admissions to hospital
amongst the soldiers was abnormally high; for this no satisfactory reason can be
assigned. It cannot be denied that soldiers at Allahabad frequently have intercourse
with unregistered women, for the registered women are a most unattractive lot, and
live in hovels not fit for a European to enter. But it is easy to understand that the
registered women may cause much mischief, as they never of their own free will go to
hospital. A registered woman may be examined and found well on Saturday, may
contract disease on Sunday, and engage in prostitution for the five succeeding days
undetected, and, if much sought after, may do considerable damage in those
five days.

   Dhais are not employed, as they are useless at Allahabad, where the registered
women, in varying proportions, reside in not less than 29 different villages, muhallas,
or bazaars. Under these circumstances, the women cannot be managed as regards
cleanliness of house or person. If the women were brought together, dhais might be
of great use for the detection of disease in the interval of examination days. Accom-
modation for 25 women exists in the infantry and artillery bazaars, but the women,
for some reason, will not inhabit it. The reason given by one woman was, that, whilst
residing there, she could not earn her livelihood. At present the women live—14
within cantonment limits, 84 in the city, and 20 in Kuttra and Colonelganj—and the
majority of them consort with natives as well as Europeans. A police enquiry showed
that, of 61 unregistered prostitutes at Allahabad, none are visited by Europeans, and
the Cantonment Magistrate doubts whether half the registered women even are
regularly visited by Europeans.

   The Cantonment Magistrate acknowledges his responsibility for the removal of
names from the register: 59 were struck off during the year, after enquiry into the
truth of the reasons for such removal. By law, however, a woman is entitled to have
her name removed from the register upon application to that effect. It is for the
police to prevent the receipt of visits from soldiers to women who are unregistered or
whose names have been removed from the register, and in this direction the police
have given little or no assistance.

   From the fact that all houses of the Allahabad inhabited site have been num-
bered (for the perfection of census operations), it is now possible for the soldier to
point out exactly the house in which he contracted disease. But this is never
recorded. The present record mentions only the " City," " Kuttra" or " Colonelganj"
as localities where disease was contracted. And the information is useless for the
discovery of a diseased woman, or for the realization of proof as to the registered or
unregistered state of the woman causing disease.

   Arrangements have been made, with the proprietor of the lock-hospital accom-
modation, for the building of six additional rooms, for which an increased rental of
Rs. 10 a month will be paid. But the existing building is most inconveniently
situated. Proprietors object to let their houses for such a purpose. The apparent
remedy is for Government to build a new hospital; indeed, plans and estimates of a
hospital were prepared years ago and sanctioned by Government in 1878. But the
Cantonment Committee determined, in 1879, that, for the present, matters should
remain as they are.

   4. The General Commanding the Division records the opinions, that every
exertion should be made to procure a new lock hospital building, situated south of
the line of rail near to the city. That it would be much more advantageous to buy
than to build the necessary accommodation, and that the Cantonment Committee
may well dispose of the matter at their next meeting.