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VIII. whether the women have been regular at the periodical examinations ; any remarks on the cause
for irregularity ; the number of individual women reported for non-attendance, the fines or other
punishments awarded; and the amount realized.
The women were regular in their attendance. No one was reported for being
absent from a health inspection if able to give any reasonable excuse, such as
suffering from fever or other temporary ailment, or being obliged unavoidably to
be absent. One woman was in prison during the whole year and another woman
was half mad and attended irregularly : this makes the number attending the
weekly inspections appear small.
The Native doctor, accompanied by a policeman, always visited at the house
of any woman said to be sick, and subsequently reported regarding her to the
Superintendent.
IX.—The arrangements for examining and treating the women of the city and cantonment.
All the women were inspected at the lock-hospital once a week, and all cases,
even suspected of any venereal complaint were immediately admitted.
X.—How far disease has increased or decreased among the women ; to what extent it has become less
virulent ; its nature as compared with that among the men ; is there any relation between the two ;
how far the admissions among the women are due to non-venereal affections or to detention of women
during the monthly illness.
The following table shows the admissions into the lock-hospital during the
year 1880 as compared with the previous year :—
Primary syphilis
1879...
Secondary do.
Gonorrhœa
...
Other venereal affections
...
. . .
. . .
. . .
8
. . .
...
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
1
...
. . .
. . .
. . .
8
Total
. . .
17
Primary syphilis
Secondary do.
1880 ... Gonorrhœa
Other venereal affections
. . . . . .
. . .
. . .
6
. . .
. . .
"
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . . . . .
...
. . .
2
...
...
...
. . .
13
Total
...
21
Amongst the Native troops, out of an average strength of about 700 men, there
were altogether two admissions for primary syphilis and one for secondary
syphilis.
Amongst the Native details (chiefly bearers, punkah-pullers, &c.), out of a
strength of about 300, there was one admission for primary syphilis and six for
gonorrhœa.
XI.—How far dhaies are employed and with what success.
The cantonment police look after the registered prostitutes, and, under the
direction of the Cantonment Magistrate, see that the provisions of the Contagious
Diseases Act are enforced.
XII.—Any information on other matters or suggestions for improvement of the rules.
The European and Native troops and Commissariat followers were singularly
free from venereal complaints during the year 1880.
At the municipal dispensary, out of 11,854 cases treated, 80 were for syphilis
(either secondary or primary) and 79 for gonorrh œa.
As regards the admissions for venereal complaints into the municipal dis-
pensary, no conclusions for or against the working of the Contagious Diseases Act
can be arrived at, as it receives bad cases of all descriptions, not only from British
Burma, but also from Upper Burma, from the Shan States, and from the Karen
hills.
The average daily number of in-patients in the lock-hospital was 2.45.
The advantages which a lock-hospital system confers may be seen even from
this small number, who, if allowed to remain at large, would not only themselves
have been a constant source for propagating disease, but those to whom they
imparted it might again have spread the contagion amongst others, and in this
way venereal diseases might be propagated to an incalculable extent.