Copy of remarks made by Deputy Commissioner on the Lock Hospital Report for
the year 1877.
The difficulty of registering women is great. I have done what I can during
the last 6 months to bring some women in the City under registration, but they
generally leave the place a few days after they have been called up, and return
when they think the Police have forgotten them. The subject will receive persis-
tent attention. The expenses are high, and I think Government should bear a
larger share of them; it is hard that Cantonment and Municipal Funds should
contribute so much as they do.
Copy with enclosures forwarded to the Cantonment Magistrate, Jubbulpore, with
reference to his No. 60, dated 21st instant.
H. H. H. HALLETT,
for Deputy Commissioner.
MEMORANDUM.
Report on venereal diseases among the European Troops stationed at Jubbulpore
from 1st March to 31st December, 1877,by Surgeon Major Austin J. Fergusson,
Senior Medical Officer, B. T .
d a t e d J u b b u l p o r e , 1 s t J a n u a r y1
8 7 8 .
During the first two months of the year under review the station was
occupied by the 2nd Battalion 11th Regiment, but no records are available to show
the amount of venereal disease which existed during that time, so that this report
only comprises a period of ten months, that is from 1st March, the date on which
the 2nd Battalion " The Royal Scots " arrived in the station.
The average strength. of the regiment has been 497·50, and the total number
of admissions to hospital for venereal diseases has been 90, classified as follows :—
Gonorrhœa
••• 45
Primary syphilis
... 39
Secondary syphilis
...
6
Total
90
Of these, 14 were detected at the venereal inspection held after the arrival
of the regiment in the station, the disease having been contracted on the
march. The primary disease to which the 6 cases of secondary syphilis was due
was also contracted elsewhere, so that only 70 cases, that is 29 of primary syphilis
and 41 of gonorrhoea, remain to be accounted for as having been contracted in
Jubbulpore:; that is to say, 14·61 per cent of the Troops suffered from venereal
diseases during the period under consideration. This is a small percentage and
speaks well for the local arrangements for the prevention of this class of con-
tagious diseases.
Extract from the proceedings of the Cantonment Committee assembled on the 18th
March 1878.
Read annual report on the working of the Lock Hospital for the year 1877,
as also the remarks recorded thereon by the Magistrate of the District and
Senior Medical Officer, British Troops, on which the Committee remark as follows :—
Venereal disease during the year under report has decreased from 203 per
1,000 per annum to 161, and it is satisfactory to find that no constitutional syph-
ilis occurred in cases contracted here, as it indicates that the type of the disease
has been of a mild character. Every possible precaution is taken to prevent clan-
destine prostitution, which is the great difficulty to contend with. The Cantonment
Police have orders to apprehend, and the registered women to inform against
any woman carrying on private prostitution, but there are many difficulties in
the way of bringing this to the front, The soldiers will not point out clandestine