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Improvement is marked at Cawnpore, Agra, Meerut (in which stations
the ratio was previously low), Bareilly, Benares, Shájahánpur, and
Fatehgarh. Lucknow and Chakráta are most conspicuous for falling off;
while Moradabad and Sitapur, as before mentioned, show the worst actual
results of all.

   6. The general results of' the year's working of the lock hospital
system in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh are reviewed by the
Sanitary Commissioner in paragraphs 90-109 of his report. He calls atten-
tion to the fact that there has been a persistent falling off during the last
four years in the number of registered women. This number he thinks
ought at least to equal 10 per cent. of the European garrison of the provin-
ces. The strength of the garrison in 1881 was 14,372; consequently there
should have been 1,437 registered women attached to the lock hospitals,
whereas there were 1,145 only. The falling off in 1881 was the more
serious, because the strength of the European garrison rose from 9,954
to 14,411. Further, the Sanitary Commissioner remarks that, although
from his own observation he is of opinion that the personal unattractive-
ness of the registered women is not so great as reports would indicate,
yet in some cantonments the registered women are undoubtedly becoming
the residue of unpresentable persons remaining after the departure of the
better-looking class. He reports that during 1881 a greater amount of
venereal disease was discovered among the registered women than in any
previous year. Reasons for this have not been given. But as regards the
prevalence of disease among the European garrison of these provinces,
the portion of it quartered at Moradabad and Sitapur excepted, the year's
management has been, as already remarked, comparatively somewhat
successful. The Sanitary Commissioner is satisfied that the medical
officers in charge of the hospitals apply themselves earnestly to the
detection and cure of disease among the registered women. Nevertheless,
care in selecting and encouraging the registered women, and strictness
in examination and skill in their treatment when diseased, will not
prevent the occurrence of disease among the soldiers, unless some means
be devised of removing opportunities for its being contracted by the soldiers
from unregistered women, and communicated by them and by men of
the general public to the registered women. Admitting that some portion
of the disease among the soldiers is derived from registered women, there
cannot be any doubt that by far the greater part of it is due to intercourse
with unregistered women. The Sanitary Commissioner remarks that the
results of the management of the lock hospital system are governed by