Registration fees.
No registration fees have been levied.
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The return showing the extent of venereal disease amongst the European
troop is attached.
Officers composing the Committee.
The Committee which used to assemble monthly
was composed of the following Officers :—
The Deputy Commissioner of Nagpur.
Sanitary Commissioner, Central Provinces.
Civil Surgeon, Nagpur.
Medical Officer in charge Lock Hospital.
Measures for the control of prostitu-
tion.
From the little I have seen of these they appear to me to be most in-
adequate. There are only 19 women who are
registered, though the number about in the several
bazars must be very large. Of the above number on the register only 5 or
6 come up for examination. On two occasions during the short time that I
have been in charge of the Health Post, not one single woman presented herself,
though the usual notice had been served. The women who attend are of the
poorest class, and I am informed (though there is no proof of this) that the
other women who are following their calling in the bazars bribe the constables
to say they have left the place and not to serve the notices upon them. I am
endeavouring to discover if there is any truth in the statement.
Registration how far extended.
It appears that only those women who cohabit with Europeans are placed
upon the register, and but few of these women have
been placed upon the register during the past year.
Attendance of the women at inspec-
tion.
A summons in duplicate, signed by the Medical Officer, is served upon each
woman, ordering her to appear on the Wednesday
following for purpose of being examined. The
attendance since the Health Post has been established has been extremely bad—
never more than 5 or 6 appearing, and on some occasions none at all. A report
is sent weekly to the Deputy Commissioner showing the number who attend,
or absent with and without leave. A return giving fuller details is also sent
after each inspection to the Deputy Surgeon General.
The number reported for non-attendance during the year is 621, which, con
-sidering the small number on the register, is excessively high.
The number of those who have attended and have been found to be diseased
is 46 ; of these 29 were gonorrhœa and 5 primary syphilis.
One reason for the very bad attendance at the examination is that all
women found diseased have to be sent to Kamptee, which they strongly object
to ; and consequently when suffering from any venereal complaint they take good
care not to come up. Another reason they give is, that they are ashamed to
come to a hospital that is solely for the treatment of men.
Area embraced by registration.
Registration of prostitutes who cohabit with Europeans is supposed to
take place within an area of 5 miles round the Can-
tonment.
Type of disease among women.
Judging from the returns the type of disease treated in the late Lock Hos-
pital has been of a tolerably mild character. Since
taking charge, only one woman has been sent to the
Kamptee Lock Hospital, suffering from a mild attack of gonorrhœa. The total
admissions for the 12 months were 31 ; and of these 5 were for primary syphilis,
29 for gonorrhœa ; the average daily sick for, the 11 months that the Lock was
ppen was 75.