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The magistrate and collector attended when specially required to do so.
5. Measures for control of prostitutes.— All women practising prostitution are
registered and regularly examined, either in the city or the cantonments.
5 (b) Unlicensed prostitutes. —The police have, on the whole, done their duty very
well during the past year, and succeeded in arresting eleven unregistered women in the
cantonments, all diseased.
6. Efficiency of the registration and extent.—The registration of women has been
quite efficient in the cantonments, and is extended to a circle of five miles radius. The
city being out of bounds to the troops is of much less importance than formerly, and
no doubt the greater number of women who allowed soldiers to visit them are now on
the register. The numbers remain very much the same as they were last year.
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8. Attendance.—The attendance has been on the whole very regular. Eighty-
one women were reported for absence, and fines to the amount of Rs. 135–14-0 were
levied and recovered.
9. Arrangements for examining and treating the women.—The city women are
examined in the city by the civil surgeon, and all diseased women are sent in to the
cantonment lock-hospital.
The examinations in cantonments are conducted by the officer in medical charge
of the lock-hospital, and the women are assembled an hour before his arrival, and
seated in a row under the supervision of police, to prevent their cleaning themselves
immediately before examination.
The speculum is used regularly. All cases of disease, or suspected disease, are at
once admitted and treated till cured. The women are dieted according to scale, and
are supplied with cots, and bedding if they are unprovided with the latter Condemned
bedding and clothing are obtained from the commissariat for the latter purpose.
10. Increase or decrease of disease among the women, and if of less virulence .—
Two hundred and thirty cases of syphilis primary were admitted during the year,
against 259 in the previous year, showing a decrease of 29.
One hundred and twenty-seven cases of gonorrhœa were admitted in the same
period, against 53 during the previous twelve months, showing an increase of 74.
Only 2 cases of secondary disease were admitted, showing that the primary cases
were of a mild type.
The increase of gonorrhœa is hard to account for, but the vast majority of the
cases were contracted by city prostitutes, no doubt from intercourse with natives.
On the whole, the cases have all been of a mild type, scarcely a case of true in-
fecting syphilis having been seen, and very few of those of gonorrhœa could be called
virulent.
11. Employment cf dhais.—A " dhai" or " mahuldarni" was employed in the
regimental bazár, and she also supervised the royal artillery .bazar. The woman
was quite unfit for her post, and is now in prison for harbouring diseased prostitutes.
In December, 1876, the woman in question was recommended to be dismissed, as
being unfit for the post, by the lock-hospital sub-committee ; this was not done, and
the sub-committee noted the fact last January. No doubt some of the disease was
due to her incapacity and connivance.
12. Information on other points or suggestions .—There is no doubt that if the
police do their duty properly venereal disease can be kept down in Cawnpore, but if
the police neglect the work and allow unlicensed prostitution, the disease would rapidly
increase and assume alarming proportions.