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t h e a r r e s t o f w o m e n p r a c t i s i n g u n l i c e n s e d p r o s t i t u t i o n . T h e m e d i c a l o f f i c e r t h i n k s
these chaprasis are useless, and that the general police should render assistance in this
matter as in England and France:
Eleven unlicensed prostitutes were arrested during the year. Of these eight were
registered and three were turned out of the station.
Amongst the registered women 17 cases of syphilis, 3 cases of gonorrhœa, and
79 cases of leucorrhœa occurred during . the year.
Amongst the soldiers 28 cases of syphilis and 26 cases of gonorrhœa were con-
tracted at . Naini Tál.
This want of correlation of cases points to sources of disease outside the registered
prostitutes, and the medical officer thinks the main source of disease amongst the
registered women is undoubtedly from association with low class natives. When
these women come up from the plains at the commencement of the season they are
filthy and generally diseased. Amongst the soldiers, disease was contracted from
unregistered prostitutes who abound at Naini Tál as grasseutters, masons, labourers,
and porters.
The medical officer is convinced that the lock-hospital system is highly bene-
ficial to the soldiers, the registered women, and to the low class natives who associate
with the women. He thinks more venereal disease is contracted by the soldiers on
the line of march than while resident at stations.
Up to the present time there has been no dhaie or matron appointed to control the
registered women at Naini Tál. The medical officer recommends the importation of
such a woman who should be held responsible for the cleanliness, order, and presence in
their houses at night of all registered women, and to prevent their intercourse with
native men.
55. The commissioner thinks that nothing more can be done than has been
already devised for the prevention of venereal disease amongst the soldiers at Naini
Tál. He has no doubt that the registered prostitutes contract disease from native
men and communicate it to soldiers, and so long as soldiers are able to wander about
the jungles in every direction in the precincts of a station like Naini Tál, where hundreds
of coolie women are employed by the Public Works Department or private individuals,
chaprasis cannot prevent unlicensed prostitution.
JHÁNSI.
56. During the year 1877 a monthly average of 16 women remained on the
register against 11 in 1876.
The results of management have been very satisfactory during the four years
1874-77 ; the ratios of venereal cases amongst the European garrison at Jhánsi have
been 112, 58, 185, and 89 per 1,000 respectively.
57. The medical officer reports that when the European troops now stationed at
Jhánsi arrived there in February last, none of the women who accompanied the
regiment were diseased. But soon after arrival disease of a virulent nature pre-
vailed amongst them, and was communicated to the men, as many as 19 cases
of venereal disease occurring amongst them during February and March.
For the cure of this disease amongst the women a system of bi-weekly inspec-
tions was introduced, lasting until the end of May, with the desired result.
The medical officer reports that from the vigilance of the native police outside
the lines and of the regimental police inside the lines, unlicensed prostitution is in
abeyance at Jhánsi.
Venereal disease amongst the women, as a rule, was mild in character, but one
especially virulent case occurred of a woman who appeared to have suffered from
s y p h i l i s
m a n y t i m e s . W h e n d i s c h a r g e d f r o m h o s p i t a l h e r n a m e w a s r e m o v e d f r o m
the register, and she has since resided out of cantonments. But the medical officer
thinks the greater number of venereal cases which have occurred since she left might