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6. —BAREILLY.
27. During the year 1881 a monthly average of 113 women remained on the
register, against 118 in 1880.
The results of the management have been very satisfactory. For the eight years,
1874-81, the ratios of admissions to hospital for venereal disease, amongst the Euro-
pean garrison, have been 165, 140, 89, 142, 235, 338, 292, and 175 per 1,000 of daily
a v e r a g e s t r e n g t h .
28.The Medical Officer reports favourably Concerning the hospital accommo-
dation provided. He states that Karim Baksh, the resident Hospital Assistant, is a
most intelligent and efficient subordinate, performing his duties with attention and
skill. The matron also is reported of as trustworthy, most attentive to her duties,
and possessed of a knowledge, of female diseases, most unusual in a person of
her class. The Cantonment Sub-Committee assembled monthly throughout the year.
The venereal returns were received with regularity.
Disease amongst the registered women was considerably less in 1881 than in
1880. As a rule the registered women, complained of by the soldiers as causing
disease, were found, after most careful and frequent examination, quite healthy.
Disease amongst the soldiers also was considerably less in 1881 as compared
with 1880. But in the artillery force, taken separately, a considerable increase
of disease occurred—a result due to their temporary removal for gun practice to
K i c h a
in the Tarai. There, some of the artillerymen contracted a bad type of
syphilis, from coolie and jangal women in the neighbourhood of the camp.
The Medical Officer is of opinion that disease amongst the soldiers generally
arises from their intercourse with coolie women, who may be frequently seen at night
on the roads of secluded parts of cantonments. And from women of the country,
met by the men during their shooting excursions. He recommends that steps should
be taken to obviate these evils, and also that Bareilly city should be placed out of
bounds to the soldier. The Medical Officer also strongly recommends, that soldiers
proved to have unjustly accused a registered woman of causing disease should be
punished. But he would not recommend any punishment of a soldier by reason of his
having contracted disease, because the knowledge, that punishment will ensue from
discovery, prompts the soldier to conceal his diseased condition. The registered
women in cantonments have been examined every second day, and the greatest care
has been taken to determine the justice of an accusation brought against a registered
woman as causing disease.
The file contains no record by the Cantonment or Military authorities.
29.The Magistrate of the District notes the decrease of disease reported amongst
the troops, and thinks the results satisfactory. But practically, the same cause of
complaint exists in 1881 as in 1880. Despite all existing measures of prevention,
the soldiers contract disease, and chiefly from coolie or other stray women. The only
probable remedy lies in the punishment of soldiers who contract disease.
B u t , n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g t h i s d r a w b a c k t o p e r f e c t s u c c e s s , t h e M a g i s t r a t e i s o f
opinion, that the existing system should be upheld as a means of preventing much
disease, which would assuredly be potent, against the soldier, if the lock hospitals
were abolished.
30. The Commissioner of the Division summarizes the facts of the report and
notes as satisfactory, the marked decrease of disease recorded amongst the soldiers
during the last two years.
7.—FYZABAD.
31. During the year 1881 a monthly average of 76 women remained on the
register, against 90 in 1880.
The results of the management have been satisfactory. For the eight years
1874-81, the ratios of admissions to hospital for venereal disease, amongst the European
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