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Statement showing the extent of various forms of Venereal Diseases among the European troops
in the Cantonment of Thayetmyo during the year 1875.
Regiment.
P e r i i o d o f o c c u p a t i o n .
A v e r a g e s t r o n g t h d u r i n g t h e p e r i o d o f o c c u - p a t i o n .
Number of admissions from venereal disease during the
period of occupation.
R a t i o o f a d m i s s i o n s p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f s t r e n g t h f o r p e r i o d o f o c c u p a t i o n .
G - 9 t h , R o y a l A r t i l l e y , a n d H e r M a j e s t y ' s 6 7 t h E u r o p e a n I n f a n t r y . G - 9 t h , R o y a l A r t i i l l e y , a n d H e r M a j e s t y ' s E u r o p e a n I n f a n t r y . T w o c o m p l e t e y e a r s , c a l c u l a t e d t o 3 1 s t D e c e m b e r 1 8 7 5 .
Gonorrhœa
..
. .
. .
.. 15
G - 9 t h R o y a l A r i t l l e r y . . . . . . . . 8 8
H e r M a j e s t y ' s 6 7 t h E u r o p e a n I n f a n t y . . 1 9 9
Syphilis (primary) ..
...
. . .
.. 16
Ditto (secondary)
..
. . .
.. 3
Stricture ure of urethra
. .
. .
.. 3
Balanitis
..
. .
. .
.. 1
Phymosis
..
. .
. . ..
1
Epididinitis Gonorrhœa
..
..
.. 3
G - 9 t h R o y a l A r t i l l e y . . . . . . . . 1 6 8 . 9 0
H e r M a j e s t y ' s 6 7 t h E u r o p e a n I n f a n t r y . . . . . . 4 7 8 . 2 4 T o t a l . . 6 4 7 . 1 4
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The above statement shows number of admissions for
seven months' only, five months' weekly returns being
missing.
Number previously obtained from records now re-
moved with the regiment ..
..
.. 68
110
Royal Artillery
.
67th European Infantry
o r
..
. .
..
. .
15 9 5
110
4. There has been no Cantonment Sub-Committee for exercising supervision over
the rules, its place having been supplied by the Assistant Cantonment Magistrate, to whom
all reports regarding the working of the hospital, the absence of women from weekly
inspection, have been made, and, when he has considered it necessary, reference has been
made to the Cantonment Committee, composed of the Commandant of the Station, the
Senior Medical Officer, British Troops, the Deputy Commissioner, the Assistant Cantonment
Magistrate, and Civil Surgeon.
5. The measures taken for the control of prostitution have been registration, police
supervision, and fines for illicit practice of the trade. Police are posted at the principal
thoroughfares, to prevent women coming into the Cantonment after dark. Women who are
found to practice prostitution without being registered are apprehended and sent to the
hospital for examination, when, if found to be diseased, they are detained for treatment, and
registered.
6. Registration has been efficient so far as it has gone, but there is no doubt that
many women practise the trade clandestinely. All who are found doing so are sent to the
Cantonment Magistrate for examination, and, if found to be diseased, are detained for
treatment, and fined. The Act is in force over an area of four square miles, including the
Town and Cantonment. The registered women live in a street at some distance from the
principal part of the town, and the obligation on them to live in this locality probably
prevents many women from registering who might otherwise do so. The average number
of women on the register during the year was eighteen, the number in the previous year
being nineteen. The number of new registrations was eleven, and the unregistered treated
during the year also amounted to eleven.