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pursuit of the calling. There is no ground for believing that open immora-
lity is confined solely to the few women whose names are placed on the register.
But the prevention of it is a matter beset with difficulty, and with no better
instruments than the ordinary Police constable to apply it, a remedy does not
readily suggest itself.
I fear registration cannot be described as having been efficiently main-
tained, for the total number of women on the list was
only on an average 49.09,—a small number, cannot
be denied, of chartered libertines for so large a community.
Registration, which extends only to the poorest and lowest class of females,
was applied to 8 new individuals, while 7 withdrew from it—none, it is but too
probable, to lead a reformed life, but most influenced by a desire to transfer their
pursuits to some more remunerative locality. The area over which registration
extends is not much less than 7 square miles, and the very wideness of its range
may not be without effect in rendering it defective. Still as the only object of
this registration is to diminish the spread of one of the gravest maladies, it can-
not be beld to be ineffective in the face of the small number of instances of this
disease which present themselves in our hospitals and dispensaries.
VI.—How far the registra-
tion has been efficient to what
classes it extends &c
II.—Whether registration
fees have been levied, and at
what rate.
No fees were levied on account of registration.
The attendancea t i n s p e c t i o n w a s , o n t h e w h o l e , r e g u l a r . 3 9 r e p o r t e d a s
absent were duly punished by the Magistrate. The
amount of fines for this neglect was Rs. 22-8-0.
No changes in the procedure of inspections were introduced. One morning
in the week was devoted to each class, and the necessary
examination conducted by the Medical Officer assisted by
the Hospital Assistant and the Chowdran. One day per
week was also set apart for the consideration of the cases
in hospital, and of those whose, absence from the other day was due to recog
nized reasons for such absence.
Among the registered women there occurred a total of 57 admissions, being
18 less than in the previous year. Of these 57 cases, only
20 were instances of syphilis ; but still, in the great ma-
jority of them, of only a form of syphilis, incapable of
producing the constitutional effects of the disease. The
remaining 37 were made up of gonorrhœa 27, leucorrhœa 7, ulceration 3. In
fact, with but few exceptions, the cases treated in hospital were purely local
maladies, capable of propagating themselves, it is true, but incapable of inflict-
ing any serious or lasting injury upon the subject of them, and without any
power of hereditary transmission. This most important fact is only explicable
on the grounds that the observance of careful ablution which females attending
the hospital learn to practise, is not neglected in their private homes. In this
indirect manner the benefits of the institution are widely extended. No relation
whatever could be traced between the disease in the European Hospital and that
in the Lock Hospital.
No individuals were taken into the establishment on account of normal
periodical changes.
Only one Chowdran was employed : she visits those on the register at their
own houses once a week, as heretofore. I have never
known her to report any case of disease discovered at
these visits. But still she is a useful servant, and the
hospital could not be well conducted without a nurse for
her peculiar position.
VIII.—Whether the women
have been regular at the periodi
cal examinations &c.
IX.—The arrangements for
examining and treating the
women of the city and Can-
tonment.
X.—How far disease has
increased or decreased among
the women &c.
XI —How far Dhaies have
been employed, and with what
success.