CALCUTTA LOCK HOSPITALS.
165
Although the number of admissions of syphilis was a little higher than in Cases included in
the previous years, there was a considerable reduction in the number of gonorr- the statement.
heal cases, which gives a lower percentage than that of 1871. It must here be
explained that the admissions, as given above, are only those contracted in Cal-
cutta and the suburbs. There are other admissions into the Garrison Hospital;
but as the sufferers in these cases either contracted disease at Dum-Dum or some
other place, to which the operations of the Act have not been extended, or from
persons who are not registered, and therefore not amenable to the Act, they are
excluded in these tables, as the operations of the Act cannot be held responsible
for the occurrence of these cases. The admissions of gonorrheal cases in 1871
amounted to 44; whereas in 1872 they came to 30 only; of these 30 cases, 17 were
admitted during the first-half of the year, and the remaining 13 in the second
half. The result thus obtained, is, I submit, an ample justification of the mea-
sure adopted by me in July last, of detaining all doubtful cases of vaginal dis- venereal disease in
charges. By the kindness of Dr. Moffat, in medical charge of the 1st Battalion, 1 1
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14th Regiment, I am enabled to furnish an additional table showing the admis-
sions of venereal diseases from that regiment during the last three years.
The regiment was located at Cawnpore in 1870 and a part of 1871, and
at Fort William in 1872.
Table showing the Admissions of Venereal Diseases in the 1st Battalion, 14th
Regiment, during the years 1870, 1871, and 1872.
1870.
1871.
1872.
Primary syphilis
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32
13
12
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84
141
54
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181
136
98
The figures speak for themselves, and need no comment.
11. The following tables of the civil hospitals and dispensaries are repro- Venereal disease
duced from last year's report for comparison :-
occurring among
patients treated
in the Calcutta
TABLE VIII.
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Venereal Cases treated in Civil Medical Institutions of Calcutta.
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Looking at the steady and decided reduction of disease in the town during Reduction
of V0.
the last four years, there can no longer exist any doubt that the Act has pro- n am ereal e div i y a soe
duced in succeeding years progressive benefit, which cannot be regarded as puloan tig on. P
merely casual, and which is traceable in every one of the tables connected with
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