JUBBULPORR :
13th January 1887.
H. FRASER, Colonel,
District Superintendent of Police.
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Copy of Docket No. 2130, data 30th October 1886, from the District Super
ntendent of Police, Jabbulpore, to the Cantonment Magistrate, Jubbulpore.
I have the honour to bring to your notice for such action as you may
think proper, that registered prostitutes Buganea, Gujra, Gundhia, and. Nunhee
were found this afternoon consorting with soldiers close to the Rest camp.
Mussamats Janki and Radha of the Sudder bazar, who I believe are not
registered prostitutes, were also similarly found. Mounted Head Constable
Sukaram, Sowar Jadha Singh, and Constable Chakowri can identify these
women.
To the Cantonment Magistrate Jubbulpore.
Cantonment Police report that on the 13th instant, at 2 P.M., Constable
2nd Class, Bulwant Singh, No. 664, observed Mussamat Parwathi Demiran in
the nalla at the back of the Cavalry Lines with a soldier in the act of having
sexual intercourse. Witnesses Dumroo and Bugwandin Ahir.
This woman formerly had a licence, but it was cancelled, so she is reported
now.
Extract from docket No. 66, dated 14th January 1887, from the District Superin
tendent of Police, Jubbulpore to the Cantonment Magistrate, Jubbulpore.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your No. 10 of the 5th
current, forwarding copy of letter from officer in Medical charge Lock Hospital,
complaining that unregistered prostitutes meet soldiers in the grove of trees at
the foot of the hill near the Native Cavalry lines. I beg to state that on a for
mer occasion when this was alleged I, in company with the late Deputy Assistant
Adjutant General, frequently visited the locality in question, but found no pros
titutes about. As to the road leading from Messrs. Jowetts to the Theatre being
frequented by unregisterd prostitutes, I have only to observe that on a few
occasions lately I personally met women, but on sending them to the Station
house found that they were registered prostitutes.
From Surgeon-Major A. Sanderson, M. S., Senior Medical Officer, Jubbulpore,
to the Cantonment Magistrate, Jubbulpore,—No. 37, dated Jubbulpore, the
20th January 1887.
I have the honour herewith to return the report on the working of the Lock
Hospital. I entirely concur in the remarks of the Medical Officer in charge :
viz. that the spread of venereal in this station is solely attributable to the impu
nity with which unregistered women are allowed intercourse with the soldiers
of the garrison. I have never seen any effort to carry out existing Regulations
on the part of the Police.
I am very sorry indeed to hear that the health of the troops has suffered
so severely.
In previous years the ground of complaint was that unlicensed women were
in the city whom the soldiers used to visit : this I discredited in some measure.
But that unlicensed women do prowl about Cantonments is no doubt true.
I forward these papers to the District Superintendent of Police for perusal
and return to Colonel Hallett. I beg that the District Superintendent of Police
will order a report by the Assistant Superintendent within a month, and also
exercise some supervision.
C. W. McMINN,
The 21st January 1887.
Deputy Commissioner.
Noted and returned to Cantonment Magistrate, Jubbulpore.
H. FRASER,
The 29th January 1887.
Dist. Supt. of Police.