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Hindustani Musslmans, who furnish five of the recent admissions into the 6th Regi
ment Native Infantry.
It remains yet, therefore, an undiscovered reason for the prevalence in one regi-
ment and a comparative absence in the other.
Lucknow, the 27th February, 1878.
J. A. S. HUTCHINSON, M.D.,
Depy. Surgn.-Genl., I.F., Lucknow Circle.
MEMO. ON LOCK-HOSPITAL REPORT FOR 1877.
IT appears to me that, disease is contracted from three different classes of
unregistered women.:—
( a.)—Native women who hang about the barracks.
(b.)—European and half-caste prostitutes who live in the city just outside canton-
ments.
(c.)—Native prostitutes who go with Europeans and live in the streets and quar-
ters borderin g on cantonments.
2 . C l a s s (
a ) c a n b e d e a l t w i t h b y t h e c a n t o n m e n t a n d r e g i m e n t a l a u t h o r i t i e s .
3. Classes ( b) and (c) are at present at perfect liberty to do what they like. All
that the General Commanding can do is to place the city out of bounds, and this he
has done. So long as there was a city, lock-hospital class ( b) was kept down, as these
women did not care to bring themselves within the rules. Both classes ( b) and (c)
were periodically examined, and, if diseased, detained for treatment ; but there being no
lock-hospital now, their powers of spreading disease are unlimited, and are taken
advantage of to the fullest extent. We are now feeling the effects of the abolition of
the city lock-hospital, as these women have discovered that the cantonment authorities
cannot interfere with them. One consequence of this discovery is that the number of
European and half-caste prostitutes, has increased largely.
4. There is no question that before the city lock-hospital was abolished provision
should have been made for dealing with the classes who are frequented by Europeans.
5. As matters at present stand the cantonment lock-hospital rules cannot be
extended to the city, because the contagious Diseases Act (XIV of 1868) applies to it,
and having once been extended to it, cannot now, so the Government of India has
ruled, be abolished. As the rules which were framed under this Act are no longer
enforced owing to the abolition of the lock-hospital, we are in a far worse position than
if this Act had never been extended to the city. If they had not been extended, the
cantonment rules would have been in force. In short, nothing is done under this Act,
and because of this Act the cantonment rules in force in other stations cannot be
enforced.
6. The only practical way out of the difficulty is to frame new rules under the
Act giving power to the Cantonment Magistrate to deal with classes ( b) and (c. , and
to declare the cantonment lock-hospital a certified hospital under the Act. With the
concurrence of the Deputy Commissioner and City Magistrate I have drafted these
rules, which have been forwarded by them to Government. These rules can, however,
only work well so long as the city and cantonment authorities are in accord.
Lucknow, the 16th March, 1878.
M. HORSFORD, MAJOR,
Offg. Cantonment Magistrate.
Dated Lucknow, the 9th March, 1878.
From—SURGN.-MAJOR J. R. REID, A.M.D., Offg. Depy. Surgn.-Genl., Lucknow. Circle,
To—Cantonment Magistrate, Lucknow.
SIR,—In forwarding the accompanying report on. the lock-hospital at Lucknow
, I beg to state that I quite concur in all that Surgeon Fairland says with regard to