Lock-Hospi
-tal, Cawnpore.
Statistics.
Medical.
charge.
Medical
Officers.
Building.
Statistics.
Disease among
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garrison.
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Inspection.
ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
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Lock-Hospital, Cawnpore. —This institution was inspected by the Deputy
Surgeon-General of the Allahabad Circle on the 29th March 1876; he reports
that the patients were clean in person, clothing and bedding. The treatment
in hospital was satisfactorily carried out. The average strength of prostitutes
borne on the register was 218, and the daily average number of sick was 66,
or at the rate of 30.27 per cent. of mean strength. On the day of inspection
there were 38 patients in hospital affected with venereal disease in. the follow
- i n g f o r m s ,
v i z . ,
g o n o r r h œ a , 9 c a s e s ; p r i m a r y s y p h i l i s , 2 8 ; s e c o n d a r y s y p h i l i s , 1 .
It appears from the statistics forwarded with Dr. J. P. Walker's report, that
nearly one-fourth of the registered women were constantly under treatment, and
regarding the benefit derived by the European soldiers from the establishment
of the lock-hospital, he remarks as follows: "It also shows that the effect of
the lock-hospital arrangements as a whole had resulted in little good to the
European soldier, in so far as nearly 36 per cent. of them had been in hospital
during the year 1875 for primary venereal diseases."
The medical officer in. charge of the lock-hospital considers that "the
European troops in camp and cantonment should not be allowed to visit the
city, except on a pass which would enable the medical officer of the corps to
trace out where men contracted the disease."
Surgeon A. Deane, 35th Regiment Bengal Infantry, had been in. charge of
the lock-hospital from the 1st January to the 13th December, and Surgeon-
Major J. B. Hamilton, M.D., of the Army Medical Department, from this latter
date to the end of the year.
DINAPORE LOCK-HOSPITAL, 1ST CLASS.
Inspected by Dr. Irving on the 29th February 1876.
Medical Officers.—Surgeon A. B. Seaman, 2nd Regiment Bengal Light
Infantry, had been in charge from 1st January to 15th April, and from the 15th
April to the 15th of December. Surgeon W . N. Jameson, Royal Artillery,
was in charge during Mr. Seamans absence on 6 months leave, and again from
15th December to the end of the year.
A new building had been taken for the purposes of a lock-hospital,
which, so far as the internal accommodation was concerned, was a great
improvement on the one previously occupied; but Dr. Irving considers it to
be too close to the bazaar, and to be in want of more space about it, as well
as of a surrounding wall.
The average number of registered prostitutes during the year was 95; the
total number treated was 233, and average number under treatment in hospital
on account of venereal diseases was 15.21.
Among the European garrison (strength not stated) there were admitted
151 cases of gonorrhœa, and 57 of syphilis, or a total of 208; and this number
was in excess of the admissions of any previous year since 1871.
Dr. Irving remarks that it will ever be a most difficult matter to work
the Contagious Diseases Act in Dinapore, as circumstances had come to the
knowledge of the sub-committee which make it appear to be very probable that
a great deal of the disease among the soldiers is contracted from women of a
different class than. those borne on the register.
The hospital, so far as medicines and the few instruments in store were
concerned, was well supplied with means for the proper treatment of the
prostitutes.
HAZAREEBAUGH LOCK-HOSPITAL.
Inspected on the 4th February 1876.
Dr. Irving reports as follows:—"In my opinion this is a model lock-hos
- p i t a l . T h e h o u s e i s p r o p e r l y e n c l o s e d b y h i g h w a l l s . C o m p a r i s o n s a r e s a i d t o
be odious, but at Dinapore the lock-hospital is in the bazaar; and is not pro
- p e r l y e n c l o s e d — n a y m o r e , w h e n I o n c e b r o u g h t t h i s f o r w a r d a t a m e e t i n g o f
the Cantonment Committee, and proposed that it should be so, I was told that
the object was to make the hospital as agreeable as possible to the women, and