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obtaining sufficient evidence against a suspected woman to justify the Canton-
ment Magistrate in bringing her on the register, but I think that the Police
might detect more women,. if they were more zealous in their endeavours.
advance this opinion not merely as a conjecture, but because I observe that
whenever owing to an increase of disease, the police are urged to greater exer-
tions, the result is almost invariably the capture of one or more women who are
almost always found to be diseased. The Regimental Police have orders to pre-
vent women from frequenting lines ; but the recent detection of a bad case of
disease in a woman acting as servant to a Sergeant of the 33rd, and who has
been in his service for a long while, shows that Regimental supervision cannot
have been very strict. No women have been captured by Regimental Police.
The European Constable in Gora Bazaar and the Cantonment Police have captured
12 women during the year., of whom 7 were brought on the register.
Registration, for the reasons already given, is not efficient. it extenus
over an area of 4 miles. There are two classes on the
register ; 1st Class for Europeans, and 2nd Class for
Natives. A considerable decrease in the number has
taken place during the past year, as 22 women have taken their names off the
register. , while only 17 have been added to the list. Unless some more strin-
gent measures can be devised for bringing clandestine prostitutes on the register,
it seems probable that in a year or two the number of registered women will
dwindle down to nothing.
6.—How far registration has
teen efficient &c.
7.—Whether registration fees have been levied &o.
No registration fees have been levied.
The women have, on the whole, been regular in their attendance, but at
the beginning of the year they were disposed to absent
themselves, and were only brought into order by being
fined by the Cantonment Magistrate. The number of
women reported to the Magistrate for non-attendance during the year was 41 ; of
these 21 were punished by fine, and the remainder admonished. The amount
realized by fines was Rs. 30.
The women of each class are examined carefully by the Medical Officer
once every week ; the 1st Class on Mondays, and the
2nd Class on Saturdays. Women reporting sick are
visited at their houses, and examined carefully by the
Hospital Assistant
The number of admissions among the registered women has been less than in
1878, and the decrease has been both under the heads of
syphilis primary and gonorrhea ; while as only 2 cases
of syphilis secondary have been admitted, the former disease is evidently not
virulent. severe cases of venereal disease have been almost unknown among
the registered women, though the women caught by the Police are often exten-
sively diseased from neglect of their ailments. The type of syphilis among the
troops of late is, I am informed by the Principal Medical Officer British Troops,
on the other hand, very virulent, and it is therefore very clear that this is contract-
ed from clandestine women.
W omen are detained in hospital when menstruating . , and have been admit-
ted for leucorrhcea and ulcer of the os uteri.
A chart is appended showing the rise and fall of disease among the registered
women and the trocog.
The chowdran or dai has visited the women as usual at their own houses,
and she has detected and reported two cases of disease
during the year. She also assists at the examinations.
I can only suggest in conclusion that more stringent measures should if prac-
ticable be taken for the detection of clandestine women by
the Police, and especially the Regimental Police, and the
exclusion from the European lines of all female coolies.
The Hospital Asistent P. Janakiram Pillay has given me every assistance
in the manage neat of the Hospital.
The servants have conducted themselves well.
8.—whether the women
have been regular &a.
9.—Arrangements for exami-
ning and treating &c.
10.—How far disease has in-
creased among the women.
11.—How far dais have been
,emplojed.
12 —Any information on
other matters.