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  5. A cantonment sub-committee has been assembled once every month, consist-
ing of the officer commanding the station, the senior medical officer, with the officer in
medical charge of the lock-hospital attending.

  All the public prostitutes have been directly under the surveillance of the police
authorities ;the regulations and rules laid down for the prevention of venereal disease and
control of the brothel houses were strictly carried out. The women were not allowed
to wander about the cantonment, but were confined to the bazárs. Unlicensed prosti-
tutes were- also confined to the bazars, and punished if detected. Care was also
taken by the regimental police to prevent strange or suspicious characters entering
the lines.

  6. The average number of prostitutes on the register during the eleven months
under report was 23.7.

  The number removed from the register and who left the station from various
causes was four.

  There was one death during the eleven months in a woman who had an enlarge-
ment of the spleen, out of hospital.

  The classes or castes of women were all Muhammadans.

  7. There were no registered fees levied during the eleven months under notice.

  8. The women were regular in attendance at the periodical examinations.

  9. The examinations were held in a closed room with the greatest circumspection
and propriety, and attention was also paid so as not to wound the feelings of the pros-
titutes.

  10. Venereal diseases have decidedly decreased among the women and were all
less virulent in type, and soon recovered under treatment without manifesting secondary
symptoms. It was also noticed that the men likewise rapidly recovered under treat-
ment. I consider that there was a relation between the sex in the propagation of the
disease directly from cohabitation. There were no admissions into hospital from non-
venereal affections.

  11. A dhai or matron was employed with satisfactory results.

  12. No suggestions.

  13. The average strength of the British troops at this station has been 773
during the eleven months of this report.

W. M. MITCHELL, APOTHECARY, 62ND REGT.,               

In medical charge of Lock-hospital.