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CAWNPORE.
2. During the year 1877 a monthly average of 135 women remained on the
register against 145 in 1876.
3. The result of the management has been very satisfactory. The ratios of
admissions to hospital amongst the garrison from venereal disease for the four years
1874-77 have been 439.5, 266.0, 201.9, and 212.37 per 1,000 of strength respectively.
4. The medical officer reports that of a total of 175 cases of venereal disease
which appeared amongst the European garrison at Cawnpore during the past year,
thirty-eight cases were contracted elsewhere than at Cawnpore, forty-nine cases were
contracted from unregistered women lurking at night time about the roads and can-
tonments and in the city, and six cases were relapses of disease ; the remaining eighty-
two cases were, the medical officer thinks, contracted from the registered women.
All women practising prostitution are registered, whether living in the city or
in cantonments. The medical examinations are conducted by the medical officer of
the lock-hospital as regards the women living in cantonments, by the civil-surgeons
as regards women living in the city. If any woman is found diseased in the city
she is sent to the lock-hospital for treatment. The city is out of bounds to the
European garrison, so that the disease discovered there is of less importance to the
troops now than formerly, and especially as many of those city women who formerly
received the visits of soldiers have removed into cantonments.
The prevalence of syphilis amongst the women was less in 1877 than in 1876,
but the prevalence of gonorrhœa was much greater. This increased prevalence
was noticed in vast preponderance of cases amongst the city women, and was no doubt
due, the medicial officer believes, to their intercourse with diseased native men.
Not one case of true infecting syphilis was seen during the year amongst the
women, and very few cases of virulent gonorrhœa. As a rule, the disease seen has
been of a mild type.
The police arrested eleven women practising unlicensed prostitution during the
year. All these women were found diseased at the time of arrest.
The medical officer records the very satisfactory results which have attended the
placing of the city out of bounds to the European soldier. He shows that since that
rule has worked the cases of primary venereal disease amongst the soldiers have fallen
to about nine per mensem, when before the ruling between thirty and forty cases were
admitted to hospital in a month. This fact, of immense importance will, it is hoped,
prevent the revoking of the rale. If revoked the result will be, he believes, an out-
break of venereal disease.
5. The cantonment committee consider the medical officer's report very satisfac-
tory, and attribute the good working of the past year to the placing of the city out of
bounds and to the greater vigilance of the cantonment police.
6. The magistrate agrees with the committee and forwards the report.
7. The commissioner forwards the report without remark.
AGRA.
8. During the year 1877 a monthly average of 138 women remained on the
register against 152 in 1876.
The result of the management has not been satisfactory. For the five years 1873
to 1877 the ratios of venereal cases per 1,000 of the European garrison at Agra have
been 240, 181, 101, 91, and 217 respectively, so that, far from maintaining the satisfac-
tory results of the previous three years, the management provides results worse than
those of 1873, when the improvement commenced.
9. The medical officer reports that the increase of disease has prevailed in all
the corps resident in the station, and he accounts for it by supposing that, by reason of