No. 16.

OFFICE OF SURGEON-GENERAL,

HER MAJESTY'S FORCES,   

MADRAS, 11th August 1882.

From.

C. D. MADDEN, ESQ.,                                     

                         Surgeon-General, Her Majesty's Forces,

To

THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE ARMY,

Fort St. George.

   SIR,—I have the honor to submit a report on the working of Lock Hospitals
in this Presidency in 1881.

   2. Number of Hospitals.—There were seven hospitals in operation at the stations
of Bangalore, Bellary, Cannanore, Kamptee, St. Thomas' Mount, Secunderabad,
and Wellington. Of these the Bangalore, Kamptee, and Secunderabad institutions
are first class, and the others second-class hospitals.

   3. Registration. — The average num-
bers of women on the register at stations
in which the Lock Hospital system was in
force were, during each of the two past years,
as per margin. It will be noted that at
all the stations, except Secunderabad, there
was more or less a falling off in registra-
tion, or, in other words, a smaller number
of prostitutes under observation. Further
details will be found in Tables A and B of
Appendix.

   4. Statistics of Sickness.—The following abstract shows, for each of the past
five years, the general facts relating to sickness treated in the Lock Hospitals :—

   The actual number treated in 1881, including remained, was one in excess of
the total for 1880, and the patients were detained for a shorter time in hospital.
The reduction in the average stay in hospital may have been due to the cases having
been milder than in the previous year, or to more vigorous treatment. Whichever
may have been the cause, the matter is one of considerable importance, as there is
always some risk attending the discharge at too early a period of certain cases
which may have apparently recovered.