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the necessary information on this point as regards the soldiers, the usual statement on
this subject, received from Benares, not showing the cases of disease Separately.
Two or three good-looking registered women prone to disease were a cause of
disease to the soldiers.
26. The cantonment committee record that 20 new women were registered during
the year, 15 women were punished for breach of lock-hospital rules, and all cases of
first offence were taken notice of, the women being warned by the cantonment magistrate.
The sub-committee held its meetings regularly throughout the year, and the regi-
mental arrangements have been the same as before.
27. The magistrate notes the fact that nearly half the soldiers of the garrison
suffered from some form of venereal disease during the year.
28. The commissioner forwards the papers with the remark that his views on
the subject are contained in previous annual reports.
MORADABAD.
29. During the year 1877 a monthly average of 57 women remained on the
register at Moradabad against 51 in 1876.
The results of the management have been satisfactory. For the five years 1873-77
the ratios of cases of venereal disease amongst the European soldiers of the garrison
have been 168, 166, 162, 98, and 115.
30. The medical officer reports that the location of the lock-hospital in the city
is inconvenient, and makes a strict supervision difficult. He thinks the building should
be isolated and near to the cantonments. The medical officer recommends the
employment of police inspectors for the investigation and punishment of breaches of
the lock-hospital rules, as very few of the women who practise unlicensed prostitution
with the soldiers are arrested or punished. Amongst the women 15 cases of disease
occurred; amongst these the serious cases were those of women who had been found
practising unlicensed prostitution.
31. The officer commanding the station forwards the papers without remark.
RANIKHET.
32. During the year 1877 a monthly average of 35 women remained on the
register against 26 in 1876.
The results of the management have been very unsatisfactory. For the four years
1874-77 the ratio of cases of venereal disease amongst the soldiers of the European
garrison have been 175, 143, 52, and 381 per 1,000 respectively.
33. The medical officer reports that a new ward was added to the lock-hospital
during the year, and the building was roofed with iron. The great increase of disease
was due to the sexual intercourse of the soldiers with unregistered women. The regis-
tered women complained of this unlicensed intercourse, and 15 unlicensed prostitutes
were arrested by the two lock-hospital peons during the months of August and Septem-
ber, and several more such women found with soldiers were arrested by the canton-
ment police. When examined all these unlicensed women were found to be diseased,
some having very severe forms of syphilis. Many more such women might have been
arrested but that the hospital peons were not allowed to arrest a woman in a house.
So that all unlicensed women who received the soldiers under a roof were safe from
detection and the peons were liable to hard treatment by the soldiers whilst performing
their duties of detection.
Very little of the disease from which the soldiers suffered was contracted from the
registered women, whose diseases were of a very mild type, whilst the diseases of the
men were virulent. The 14th Regiment formed part of the garrison. This regiment
came from Sitapur and Benares.
34. The cantonment magistrate, in forwarding the report, states that in the
opinion of the cantonment committee some portion of the increase of venereal disease