VII—Efficiency of registra-
tion and extent of area.
The District Superintendent
of Police has been lately ad-
dressed on this subject.
H. C. E. WARD,
Deputy Commissioner.
23rd January 1880.
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The Civil police have been warned to keep a sharp look-out for women prac-
tising unlicensed prostitution and bring them be-
fore the Cantonment Magistrate, to be sent up to the
Lock Hospital for examination and registration. 5
have been brought by the police during the year, against 4 last year ; yet there
is every reason to believe that a very large number of unlicensed women do
carry on prostitution in the City, and a little more vigilant look-out on the part
of the police will detect many.
The Europeans acting as Regimental police are also expected to seize any
woman of the sort, loitering about
the lines, and only 3 were so de-
tected. During the year, 20 wo-
men have vol untarily come forward
for registration. The total num-
ber of women who obtained leave
during the year was 22, giving a
monthly average of 1.83. Al-
though this is below the usual
number, yet, I think, the greatest caution should be taken, as some of them
occasionally overstayed their leave for a short time.
The registration extends over an area of four miles from centre of the Can-
tonment. I do not consider that registration has been
nearly as efficient as it might be. if the *Police and
soldiers could be induced to report all unlicensed prosti-
tutes that exist to a great extent, both, in the city and
villages round Cantonment, it will show better results. I
am well aware that many of the women are diseased. I
have ample evidence in seeing in my capacity as Civil
Surgeon the very large amount of disease that exists in the civil population,
little or none of which can be disseminated by registered women, who are
most regular in attendance at the weekly examination, and if found to be slightly
diseased they are placed under treatment at once. Registered women are being
occasionally sent up by me as having given them disease, but since I have been
in charge of the hospital I have not found in a single instance any of these women
being diseased. It seems impossible to get the Europeans, and indeed even the
Native soldiers, to give any clue which may lead to the detection of unregistered
women; but with the fair amount of pressure, I should think the Regimental
Police ought to be able to suppress this near their lines at all events.
VI.—Special measures for control
of prostitution and especially for pre-
venting unlicensed prostitution.
The police have considerable difficulty in this matter, because,
as a rule, all the women who frequent the vicinity of the
barracks are prepared with husbands to resent police action.
The victims will never give information as to the women who
have diseased them, and it is very rare that the women are caught
in flagrant detection. The coolie women employed about the
baracks, are as a rule, the culprits, but all of these are always
ready to swear that they are married.
Deputy Commissioner.
23rd January 1880.
VIII.—Registration fees.
No registration fees have been levied.
The attendance on inspection days I consider very regular ; seldom indeed
is a woman found absent, and hardly ever without some legitimate cause. Few
fines have in consequence been levied during the year, only Rs. 7-2-0.
Women are examined according to classes, the second class on Mondays, and
first class on Fridays. These are always made by the
Medical officer with the speculum, the Native Doctor
and the Matron being in attendance, Women reported are
seen on the following morning, and those sent in having as been suspected of disease
by the Europeans, at any time.
* If the Police were informed when a man contracts disease he could be questioned as to the party from whom
he contracted it, or if the weekly return sent by the Senior Medical Officer British Troops through the Canton-
ment Magistrate were sent to the Police they might be able to discover the women. A man might not be able
to say exactly what woman diseased him, but be could point out the locality where he contracted the disease and
s o g i v e a c l u e t o t h e P o l i c e .
D. MACNEILL,
District Superintendent of Police.
The weekly return above alluded to would in no way aid the Police, as no names are mentioned therein.
IX —Arrangement for exa-
mination.
E. W. C. B. MILLER,
Cantonment Magistrate.