Lock Hospital
Improve-
ments during
the past fevr
years.
Venereal
diseases
among
European
Troops.
European and
Native
Details.
Health of
civil popu-
lation in the
c antonment.
Conservancy
of the town of
Secunderabad.
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duct the examinations myself, and recommended me to employ a Native Dresser for the
purpose, of whom the people would not be afraid, as they would of a European. I accordingly
deputed Passed Hospital Apprentice Veramahali, of the Cantonment Hospital, for the duty,
selecting him because he had been with me at several of my examinations in the lines and
quite understood my plan of proceeding. He was specially instructed that there was to be
no selection, but that the young people were to be taken at random, just as they came to
hand.
The result of his examinations is shown below :—
Villages.
Total
examined.
S. P.
O.
Sikh Village
...
...
48
1 1
V 1
3 7 V 13
O 10
O 24
Chota Mulkapoor
...
50
11
V 4
39
V 2 8
O 7
O 1 1
Russelpoor
...
...
64
12
V 3
5 2
V 4 9
O 9
O 3
Balannai ...
...
17
1 V 1
1 6
V 1 6
O ... ..
. .
Bosaredy Goodum
...
9
2
V 1
7
V 6
O 1
O 1
Maredpully
...
...
15
4
V 1
1 1
V 6
O 3
O 5
Kaka Goodum.
...
13
3
V ...
10
V 3
O 3
O 7
Total ...
216
44
V 1 1
172
V 1 2 1
O 33
O 5 1
In November the cantonment committee sanctioned the employment of two additional
public vaccinators, on a salary of 10 Government Rupees each. The villages within canton-
ment will be attended to by them, and the Residency Surgeon, Hyderabad, has been requested
to have those in the neighbourhood, but outside the boundary, looked after, which he has
kindly promised to do.
Lock Hospital .—The admissions of registered prostitutes into the Lock Hospital
in 1872 were 147, being nearly half as many again as in the previous year, and the
average dai l y si ck of 1872 (8 1/10) was nearl y doubl e t hat of 1871 (4 13/192). It may be
observed, however, that the figures of 1871 are quite exceptional, the admissions having in no
year previous to that fallen below 176, or the average daily sick below 7 3/4, while in most
years both the number of admissions and the average daily sick have been very much
greater.
Venereal diseases among European Troops .—As regards the amount of venereal disease
among the European troops the statistics of the year under review are even more unfavor-
able than those of the year previous, there having been 488 admissions in 1872, against 448
in 1871. With careful weekly examinations of the registered women, the risk of disease being
contracted from them must be small, and there seems no doubt that the so-called " casuals,"
or women who do not live by prostitution, but merely add by it as occasion offers to the
gains of other occupations, are the real source of the evil—an evil which it seems almost
impossible to cope with, unless infected soldiers can be induced to give such information
as would enable the police to act in the matter. As regards the registered women every one
of them hitherto denounced by soldiers as having infected them has been found on exami-
nation perfectly free from disease.
European and .Native Details .—In the statistics of the small body of European and
Native Details there is nothing calling for remark. The percentage of admissions to
strength among the Europeans was 39.02, and one death occurred from dropsy. Among the
natives the percentage of admissions to strength was 46.31, and no death occurred.
Health of civil population in the canto nment.—Among the civil population in
the cantonment there were 1,168 deaths in 1872, which is estimated to be at the rate of 26
per 1,000. This is 4.8 above the estimated ratio of 1871, so that among the civil population,
as well as among the Native Troops here, the year under review was a less healthy one on
the whole than its precursor. In both years there was a cholera epidemic, causing about
equal mortality. In 1872 there were nine deaths from small-pox, against five in 1871.
Conservancy of the town of Secunderabad .—The conservancy of the town of Secundera-
bad is carefully attended to at an annual cost, since 1869, of H. S. Rupees 19,464-3-0. This
is exclusive of the Assistant Quartermaster-General's Conservancy Establishment, costing
H. S. Rupees 11,120-6-0 annually.
Improvements during the past few years.—Great improvements have been effected
in the town during the past few years, of which the following are the chief:—
The main drain, running through the centre of the town, has been paved throughout
with granite.
The bazaars in some of their most densely inhabited, worst drained, and most inaccessi-
ble portions have been cut into and across by broad roads (running north and south and
east and west) whose sanitary value is not less than their importance as police and
military communications.