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Registration extends over an area of 4 miles.
There are two classes of women on the register, viz., First class for Euro-
peans, and Second class for natives. An increase Óf 6 in the number has taken
place during the year under report; 15 women having been brought on the regis-
ter, and only 9, names removed. The close proximity of a large town to a Can-
tonment renders it comparatively easy for men to consort with unregistered
women who cannot be detected, unless the men will point them out. During the
past year, 2 women have presented themselves voluntarily for registration, and
9 have been convicted by the Cantonment Magistrate of carrying on clandestine
prostitution, and placed on the register.
7. Whether Registration fees
have been levied, &c.
No Registration fees have been levied.
The women have as a rule been regular in their attendance at the weekly
examinations. During the year, 17 registered women
were fined by the Cantonment Magistrate for breaches
of Lock Hospital rules, and chiefly for absenting them-
selves from examination; the amount of the fines varying from Rs. 1 to Rs. 2,
and the total amount realized being Rs. 29. Besides this, fines to the amount
of Rs. 9 were levied on clandestine prostitutes on conviction.
The registered women of each class attend once a week, viz., those of the
First class on Monday, and those of the Second class on Sa-
turday, for examination by the Medical Officer. Women
reporting sick are visited at their houses and examined
carefully by the Hospital Assistant.
The total number of admissions among the registered women during the
past year was considerably less than in 1879 ; the num-
bers being for 1879, 114, and in 1880, only 91. As
among the soldiers, the decrease has been chiefly under the head of syphilis
primary, the admissions for which numbered 20 in 1880. against 39 in 1879.
The type of disease has been almost invariably mild, and the sores of the soft kind;
and virulent cases, and hard sores have, I believe, been equally exceptional among
the men.
Three women were admitted for non-venereal affection, viz. ulceration of
the os utiri ; and all, who were found to be menstruating on examination days,
were detained, until the discharge had ceased. The chart appended shows the
rise and fall of both syphilis primary and gonorrhoea among the troops and
registered women.
The Chowdran or Dhai has visited the women at their own houses as usual
throughout the year, and she also assists at the weekly
examinations at the hospital.
The results of the working of the institution during the past year appear
to me to be very encouraging, and I hope they will lead
to further exertions on the part of the police to bring all
women practising prostitution within the limits of the Cantonment under the
notice of the Cantonment Magistrate, and endeavour to get them put on the
register, and so still further reduce the dangerous element of clandestine pros-
titution.
The Hospital Assistant P. Janakuram Pillay has worked zealously and
assisted me well in the management of the institution.
The Dhai and all of the other servants have conducted themselves well.
8. Whether the women have
been regular, &c.
9. Arrangements for examin-
ing and treating, &c.
10. How far disease has in-
creased among the women.
11. How far Dhais haye been
employed.
12. Any information on
other matters.