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Statement showing the extent of various forms of venereal disease among the European
troops in the cantonment of Sháhjanánpur during the year 1877.

Sháhjahánpur, 6th January, 1878.

E. B. GARDNER, SURGEON MAJOR,                

In medical charge of Lock-Hospital.

CHAKRATA.

No. 29, dated Meerut,. the 11th February, 1878.

From—E. COLVIN, ESQ Offg. Commissioner, Meerut Division,

To—The Secretary to Government, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh.

  SIR,—I have the honour to forward for the information of Government letter
No. 30, dated the 4th instant, from the Superintendent of the Dún, together with
the annual report on the Chakráta lock-hospital for the year 1877.

  2. The strength of the garrison and the number of admissions from venereal
disease among the European soldiers are as follows for two years :—

  3. I agree with Mr. Ross that the extension proposed by the cantonment magis-
trate would involve much trouble to villages in the neighbourhood without any suffi-
cient compensating advantages.

No. 30, dated Dehra Dún, the 4th February, 1878.

From—H. G. Ross, ESQ., C.S., Superintendent, Dehra Dún,

To—The Officiating Commissioner, Meerut Division.

  SIR,—I herewith have the honour to forward the report on the lock-hospital at
Chakráta for the past year.

  2. I consider it satisfactory, as diseases seem to a certain extent to be giving
way to proper treatment.

  3. I do not think under the circumstances that it is necessary to extend the Act
any further. No doubt a little disease may be contracted in villages within four miles,
but so there would in five miles or more. I think the cantonment magistrate can see
after this without extending the rules, &c. The latter- procedure would probably lead
to more or less harassment of the villages.

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