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From the Officiating Civil Surgeon, Bassein, to the Deputy Commissioner, Bassein,—No. 58, dated the 11th
February 1876.
WITH reference to my letter No. 57, of yesterday's date, I have the honour to forward
the statement which will complete the annual Report on the Bassein Lock-hospital for the
year 1875.
Return of admission from venereal disease in the detachment, 1st battalion, 21st Fusiliers,
stationed at Bassein during a portion (about six months) of the year 1875.
•
Diseases.
N u m b e r a d m i t -
t e d .
REMARKS.
Primary syphilis ...
...
...
...
1
Contracted at Bassein.
Gonorrhœa
...
...
...
...
2
Ditto
ditto.
Total ...
3
Average strength ...
42.75
Endorsement by the Deputy Commissioner, Bassein,—No. 8-11, dated the 11th February 1876.
COPY of the above forwarded to the Commissioner of Pegu, in continuation of this
Office No. 8-9, dated 10th instant.
Memorandum, from the Deputy Commissioner, Henzada, to the Commissioner of the Pegu Division,—
No. 19-6, dated the 3rd January 1876.
Subject.—Report on the working of Lock-hospitals.
Reply.—The Indian Contagious Diseases Act (XIV. of 1868) is extended to the town of
Henzada in the British Burma Gazette, Part II., page 6, notification No. 4 of 1874. The
building for the Lock-hospital not being completed, the Act was not in force during the year
1875, but is expected to be in working order by the end of the current month.
Remarks by the Deputy Commissioner, Prome, on Civil Surgeon's report of the Lock-hospital,—dated the
10th Frebruary 1876.
THE REPORT and returns, dated 1st January, have not been received till to-day.
The Civil Surgeon carefully describes the new building, refers to the objections raised
against the site, and the prospect of meeting these objections, by handing over the present
building to the Railway Department, and having another built in a less objectionable
locality.
The Railway Department is inclined to meet the views of the Committee, and it is hoped
matters will be finally and satisfactorily arranged before long.
In reference to Civil Surgeon's remark in 4th page, he is in error in saying, that the
duty of registration of prostitutes has been transferred from the Deputy Commissioner to
the Civil Surgeon.
The Civil Surgeon simply prepares the tickets for the signature of the Deputy Commis-
sioner, so as to obviate the inconvenient necessity of causing the prostitutes to apply
personally at the Deputy Commissioner's Office.
In reference to only six apprehensions out of thirty women brought to the notice of the
Magistrate, the latter remarks "there is no Officer appointed to make arrests, a policeman
should be nominated. I spoke to Major Lowndes about it, and he agreed with me. The
fault does not lie with the Magistracy that no arrests were made. The prosecutions are
conducted in a very slovenly manner ; as to short terms, the Act allows only short imprison-
ments, which are simple, and there is no object in prolonging them. But they have got
one-quarter to one-half the maximum in most cases."
The Municipality has been most willing to carry out the suggestions of the Civil Sur-
geon, in view to putting a stop to private prostitution.
Now that there is an Assistant Commissioner in charge of Shwe-doung, the Act (as
suggested by the Civil Surgeon) might be extended to that town.
Annual Report of the Lock-hospital at Prome for the year ending 31st December 1875.
IN THE beginning of the year, the new Lock-hospital was finished, and taken over ; it
is situated at a short distance to the east of the Civil Dispensary, on a lower level ; it is a 6