( 28 )

MEERUT.

Extract from the proceedings of the Cantonment Committee assembled at Meerut on
Saturday, the 2nd March, 1878.

PRESENT :

      1. The lock-hospital report for 1877, including the additional information from
the cantonment magistrate, together with circular No. 14A., dated 4th February,
1878, from the Government, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and other printed
correspondence thereon, also Nos. 25 and 26A. of 1878, dated 31st January, 1878,
from the Government, North-Western Proviness and Oudh, and other printed corres-
pondence thereon, and also the reports of the sub-committee of the lock-hospital for
1877, having been submitted, the cantonment committee concur in the views recorded
by the medical officer in charge, which enters into all details and call for no further
remarks. It was resolved to forward the report to the district officer to be trans-
mitted to the commissioner of the division for submission to the local Government.

G. W. C. PLOWDEN, MAJOR,                         
Cantt. Magte., and Secy., Cantt. Committee.               

ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LOCK-HOSPITAL AT MEERUT FOR 1877.

No. 6, dated Meerut, the 17th January, 1878.

      From—W . MOIR, ESQ., M.B., in medical charge, Lock-Hospital, Meerut,
      To—The Secretary to the Cantonment Committee.

        SIR,—In forwarding the annual report of the Meerut lock-hospital for the
year 1877, I have the honour to report briefly on the several points to which my atten-
tion is invited in the directions for the preparation of the annual reports of the lock-
hospital.

   The nature and extent of the hospital accommodation ; whether it is suitable,
and whether there has been any change in it during the year.

      1. The hos-
pital is a build-
ing formerly occupied by a staff' sergeant, and contains three rooms. The accommo-
dation furnished by the present building is in every respect suitable.

   Any change in the medical charge of the lock-hospital
during the year.

      2. There has been no change during
the year.

   The extent of venereal disease among the European
troops, as shown by the weekly returns. Have these
returns been received regularly? and if not, has the irre-
gularity been brought to notice ?

      3. I exhibit on the following page in a tabular form the amount of primary
venereal affections contracted by the
European troops at Meerut during
the past ten years. The mean ratio
of admissions for the previous nine years was 88·16 per 1,000 of the European garri-
son strength, and for last year it was 80·39. In 1876 it was 87·38.

      The figures are obtained from the weekly returns of the European hospitals,
which are submitted to me with great regularity from the office of the deputy surgeon-
general, British troops, here.

      I have constructed this statement to show the actual working of this lock-
hospital, excluding all diseases communicated in other places than Meerut, and also all
secondary affections, as it is obvious that to include them would nullify the object
in view,