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       In the following table the diseases with which the women were affected are
classified:—

       Contrasting these 956 admissions to the lock-hospitals with the classification
of the 1,228 admissions for 1883, we find that not only were the admissions less
frequent in the year under review, but also less serious in character.

       In the following statement the admissions to dispensaries for venereal
diseases for the past six years are exhibited:—

       The admissions in 1884 are one-third greater than they were in 1879, which
would seem to imply that, like the military, the general population derive little
or no benefit from registered prostitution.

XI.—How far dhais are employed and with what success.

       No dhais have been engaged.

XII.—Any information on other matters or suggestions for the improvement of the rules.

       The Superintendents of the different lock-hospitals maintain that what is
wanted to make the working of the rules a greater success is stricter supervision
and more perfect control by the police of unlicensed prostitution. Surgeon
Frenchman, Superintendent of the Thayetmyo Lock-hospital, advocates in addi-
tion the entertainment of a female detective, and the provision of prostitutes'
quarters nearer the cantonment; these suggestions are approved by the Town
Committee. That laxity in the supervision of prostitution in the Town of Bassein
should be put a stop to, Surgeon Dalzell considers an increased establishment is
necessary, and the Municipal Committee, after deliberation, recommend that one
sergeant and two constables of the police force be employed as detectives in plain
clothes; the Commissioner is, however, unable to support this recommendation.
Surgeon Smith, Officiating Superintendent at Toungoo, says: "Better police
" supervision and the compulsory registration of such as are known to be carrying
" on clandestine promiscuous prostitution appear to be absolutely necessary for the
" efficient enforcement of the rules now existing, and police traditions appear to be
" so opposed to anything like vigilance in this direction that it becomes a question
" whether the duty should not be altogether relegated to other hands. It is, indeed,
" perhaps hardly fair to expect from the police great activity in this matter. When
" we consider (1) the dire possibilities with which the contraction of syphilis is
" fraught, involving as it may a shipwreck of health and happiness, in which even

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