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5. Nothing was done until the other day, when rules were framed by the Canton-
ment Magistrate in consultation with myself. These rules were altered by myself and.
the Deputy Commissioner in two sections, and sent on to Government for sanction.
6. The rules provide that all ministerial work shall be done by the Cantonment
Magistrate, all detective and judicial by the City Magistrate and City Sup erintendent.
The Deputy Commissioner consents to transfer detective and judicial power to Major
Horsford only, and he is to work through the city police only.
7. The last point is important, for, if I understand Dr. Fairland's report cor-
rectly, the procedure in cantonment is illegal. It is not legal in India or in England
for the police to send an unregistered and unconvicted woman of their own motion
to the lock-hospital ; it is illegal to examine her there, and illegal to detain her there.
8. In the city such power could not be safely intrusted to any police. It would
be monstrous to expose respectable women, asked, for instance, the way by a soldier, to
the risk of being introduced to the hospital subordinate with his tenderness and his
speculum.
F. M. NEWBERY, CAPTAIN,
City Magistrate.
MEMO.
I HAVE read this report with much pleasure, as on the whole it is a gratifying
record, and I am glad to be able again to offer my cordial thanks to Staff Surgeon
Fairland and his native hospital assistant.
The fact, however, that not a single case of syphilis (para. 21) had been discov-
ered amongst the registered women, whilst 128 cases are recorded (last table)
amongst the troops, affords the best of reasons for believing that the unregistered
women find much favour, and that they are the chief causes of disease.
In the case of the Royal Artillery in Fort Mai Bhawun this is specially true,
and unfortunately there is no remedy, as the prostitutes in the city and Aminabad
and the suburbs are free from all medical control and supervision. To this the fright-
ful condition of the ratio of disease (506 per 1,000) bears testimony, and if figures and
facts are self-asserting, surely it must now be admitted that a city lock-hospital is a
necessity.
The military authorities, including medical, administrative and executive officers,
most earnestly protested against the closing of that institution, and induced the muni-
cipality to continue the expense, pending the orders of Government. For the condi-
tion of affairs as shown in the Royal Artillery, I submit that no blame can in any way
be attached to the local military authorities.
The Sanitary Commissioner, in his review on the lock-hospital reports for 1876,
ascribes (para. 94) the ill-success of our operations in Lucknow " plainly to the oppor-
" tunities accorded to the soldiers for visiting unregistered women."
My answer is that it is impossible to confine the Royal Artillerymen in the fort
to its defences, or even to the limits of the glacis, and that practically no substantial
remedy exists against the spread of disease, &c. Doubtlessly they consort with the women
who once were registered, but they cannot guard against disease ; and unless a
lock-hospital be re-opened in the city, it is hard to say to what extent disease may not
increase.
With the troops in cantonment there is a difference, and at times stringent mea-
sures have been used with particular regiments.
I am very confident that much of our trouble arises from European and Eura-
sian women who live on the borders of cantonments. To remedy the evil I have
placed their locality—" Havelock Road"—out of bounds, and patrols constantly move
about there. As a matter of course, the occupants of the "millinery establishments,"
" refreshment rooms," and " board and lodging-houses," will clear out of a con-
demned quarter to re-open in some as yet unforbidden locality, but they will be very
carefully watched, and every endeavour will be continued in order to checkmate them.
The 21st March, 1878.