2
As the amount of such fines was at Jubbulpore only Rs. 16-8-0 it must
be inferred either that the non-attending women did in the majority of Cases
supply some reasonable explanation for their absence or that the Cantonment
Magistrate fined them in very small sums.
5. The fines levied are indeed in every place insignificant, and it seems to
the Chief Commissioner as if Cantonment Magistrates and other officers did not
sufficiently realize the need for forcing the women to be punctual in attendance.
6. In respect to sickness among the women there seems some diversity of
procedure among medical men. The Chief Commissioner assumes that for Lock
Hospital purposes only the treatment of venereal diseases should be shown in the
returns. At Kamptee, Sitabaldi and Saugor this rule is observed, and the women
were treated for gonorrhœa or syphilis primary and secondary or some other vene-
real affection ; but at Pachmarhi and Jubbulpore other diseases which have no
direct connection with venereal disease are ,also entered, such as chronic rheuma-
tism, fever, bronchitis, diarrhœa and scabies.
The sickness among the women was in 1878 about the same in amount as it
was in 1877. At individual places there were some varia-
tions. Thus at Kamptee there was a considerable decrease,
and the decrease" was very considerable in the cases of gonorrhoea, while cases of
syphilis more than doubled. This seems unsatisfactory. At Sitabaldi there
was also less sickness than in 1877 ; cases of gonorrhcea were considerably less,
but cases of syphilis more. All of the disease is said to have been of a mild
type. Similarly at Saugor gonorrhoea greatly diminished, and primary syphilis
increased. The Surgeon-Major in charge of the look hospital remarks that,—
" the type of disease calls for but little remark ; as a rule it yielded readily to treatment,
but a few required a prolonged course of treatment before a satisfactory result
ensued. It is satisfactory to note that there has been a very marked and regular
•decrease in the number of cases of gonorrhma since 1873,
when 100 cases occurred.± I regret the slight increase
in syphilis for the past 2 years. The sores however appear not to have been of
the infecting character, as there is no secondary syphilis among the women."
At Pachmarhi there Was only 1 case of secondary syphilis, only 2 cases of
gonorrhcea, and not a single case of primary syphilis. At Jubbulpore admissions
were more numerous in 1878 than in 1877 ; but the sickness among registered
women was slight. The Surgeon-Major in charge of the lock hospital
remarks :-
" The number admitted into hospital has been 226, against 149 for the previous year. In
the majority of registered women requiring treatment the cases have been very
mild so far as they have come under observation. This has not been so with
the unregistered women recently caught and admitted into hospital."
And again :—
." I can on my part state with confidence that during the period I have held the charge
the women on the register have, as a rule, shown very little disease which could be
propagated to others,and have been taken under treatment more as a precaution-
ary measure and for their own benefit than from any other cause."
7. The statements showing the extent of various forms of veneral disease
among European troops seem to give the following results . At Kamptee there was
an increase of disease of primary and secondary syphilis., and a decrease in cases
of gonorrhcea. At Sitabaldi also there was more sickness ; in respect to primary
syphilis the increase was slight ; in respect to gonorrhcea it was large. At Saugor
there Were fewer troops cantoned in 1878 than in 1877, but the relative sickness
was greater. At Pachmarhi disease was less ; there were fewer admissions for
gonorrhoea, larger admissions for primary syphilis, and markedly fewer admis-
sions for secondary syphilis. 'At Jubbulpore there was increased . sickness, the
ilibrea' ae being 'large 'under tinorrhcea, and 'conSiderabie Under'-secondary syphilis,
* 62 cases.
t In 1878, 21 cases.