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Annual Return of the Lock-Hospital at Ránikhet for the calendar year 1877.
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| Area. | Number of registered pros- titutes |
Average number of prostitutes on the register in each month and for the year. |
Average number of prostitutes attend- ing the periodical examinations. |
Number reported to cantonment magis- trate or other civil authority for non- attendance. |
Number of prosti- tutes found diseased at the periodical ex- aminations and de- tained for treatment. |
RECORD OF DISEASES. | Average number of prostitutes in hos- pital for each month and the year. |
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| Diseases. | Remained. | Admited. | Total. | Discharged. | Died. | Remaining. | Total. | |||||||||||||
| The area over which the rules for the prevention of venereal disease have been in force included. | Number remaining on the register at the end of last year. |
21 | January | 21. | January | 16. | January | ... | January | 9 | Gonorrhoea | ... | 121 | 121 | 115 | ... | 6 | 121 | January | 5.54 |
| February | 20 | February | 15. | February | ... | February | 5 | Syphilis primary | ... | 75 | 75 | 69 | ... | 6 | 75 | February | 9.85 | |||
| 30 | March | 27.67 | March | 25. | March | ... | March | 13 | Ditto secondary | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | March | 7.74 | ||
| Number added to the re- gister during the year 1877. |
April | 31.83 | April | 29.83 | April | ... | April | 18 | Vascular tumour | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | April | 15.50 | ||
| May | 35.54 | May | 32.35 | May | ... | May | 12 | Dysentery | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | May | 13.87 | |||
| June | 3.60 | June | 33. | June | ... | June | 22 | Menorrhagia | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | June | 17.40 | |||
| Total | 51 | July | 36.87 | July | 31.22 | July | ... | July | 15 | July | 21.13 | |||||||||
| August | 44.16 | August | 36.23 | August | ... | August | 22 | August | 21.29 | |||||||||||
| Number who removed their names from the regis- ter, died, or absconded during the year 1877. |
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| September | 45.53 | September | 40.86 | September | 3 | September | 23 | September | 16.54 | |||||||||||
| October | 43. | October | 39.51 | October | ... | October | 21 | October | 14.42 | |||||||||||
| November | 43.23 | November | 40.50 | November | ... | November | 24 | November | 18.03 | |||||||||||
| 43 | December | 43.77 | December | 41 32 | December | ... | December | 15 | December | 15.16 | ||||||||||
| Number remaining on 31st December, 1877. |
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| Total | 51 | Average for the year. |
35.11 | Average for the year. |
31.12 | Total for the year. | 3 | Total for the year | 199 | Total | ... | 199 | 199 | 186 | 1 | 12 | 199 | Average for the year. |
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Inspections for the examination of all registered prostitutes were held regularly every 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd, of each month,
Annual Statement No. I. of the Lock-hospital at Ránikhet for the year 1877.
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| Local Government or Administration. |
Date on which lock- hospital was estab- lished. |
Act under which the rules are in force. |
Area over which the rules are in force. |
Estimated na- tive popula- tion with in the area. |
Details of monthly pay of establishment. | Whether a first or second class hospi- tal. |
Remarks. | |||
| Local, North-West- ern Provinces. |
19th November, 1870, in anticipation of sanction by Govern- ment of India. |
Act XXII. of 1864. | Cantonment boun- daries, according to executive engineer, 10 square miles. |
Rs. | a. | p. | Second class. | |||
| 6,000 | Medical officer | 50 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Hospital assistant | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Matron | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Mehtranis | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Cook | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Bhisti | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Sweeper | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 2 peons @ Rs, 6 each per mensem | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Total monthly cost of establish- ment. |
101 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ránikhet, 1st, January, 1878.
L. A. IRVING, SURGEON, A.M.D.,
In Medical charge of Lock-Hospital.
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