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       Thus the ratio of admissions per 1,000 for the years were:—

       It is to be hoped that as the causes of increase of disease are removed, the pro-
gressive improvement which was checked by the present year will again be felt.

       4. Sub-committee.—The same working sub-committee exists as heretofore:—

       The magistrate of the district.

       The cantonment magistrate.

       The medical officer in charge of the
lock-hospital.

       5. Special measures for the control of prostitution.—These have been as here-tofore:—

       1st.—Detective police.

       2nd.—A detective dhai.

       3rd.—Regimentál patrols and police.

       4th.—Examinations of the women weekly by myself, and every second day by the
native dhai.

       5th.—Endeavours to keep casual women away from the lines.

Causes of inefficiency of
same.

       Relative to these, every day shows me the police are inefficient in the discharge
of this part of their duty, " although specially told off for the
same." When to their eastern indolence and apathy, dislike
of the work, religious and public prejudice is added, and, only

Police.

I fear too often, the incentive of bribes, it can easily be seen how little they,
" the police," can be depended on, and how much European
continuous supervision is necessary.

       To show that the foregoing is true I have only to point out that native police
officers have had to be degraded during the year for neglect of duty in this matter.

       Relative to regimental police, they too are very lax in the discharge of their
duty relative to prevention. They neither understand nor approve of the rules, which
are looked on by soldiers as a species of tyranny. The police are usually old good-
conduct men, not fit to run 100 yards, and the consequence is that when to their
prejudices are added their infirmities, few, very few—I may say, no—men are caught,
and but few women, as on the alarm being given the man runs one way, the women
another, and the aged policeman is left halting in the middle. It has been notorious
during the past year that ayahs have caused disease in the lines, yet I know of no
case in which the regimental police have discovered and reported on the matter.

Detective dhai.

       Relative to a detective dhai, her lines are cast in hard places, for between the
threats of male procurers and female prostitutes on one hand,
Causes a small salary and little credence, with the difficulty of prov-
ing her case, on the other she has every incentive to take " dustúri" and allow mat-
ters quietly to slide, and the consequence is her services have lately been of little
value.

       From all this it is seen that I attribute most of the disease contracted to unregis-
tered women, and in consequence examinations of the registered, however often, are
useless in checking this source of disease.

       6. Registration.—Registration is inefficient. The classes on the register are
the lowest of the low, chiefly old, ugly, broken-down hags, deformed and seared by
disease, and dragging on a miserable existence by the aid of opium, bhang, and liquor.

Area of the Act.

       The area over which the Act extends is in reality only the cantonments and city
of Bareilly, but is supposed to extend to a radius of five miles
from Bareilly.