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

J. CAMERON,
Apothecary in medical charge of Lock.Hospital.

J. H. JEFFCOAT, SURGEON-MAJOR, A.M.D.,
   Senior Medical Officer, British Troops.

NAINI TAL.

No. 30, dated Rámnagar, the 14th January, 1878.

From—MAJOR-GENERAL H. RAMSAY, Commissioner, Kumaun Division,

To—Secretary to Government, North-Western Provinces and Oudh.

  SIR,—I have the honour to forward the Naini Tál lock-hospital report
for 1877.

  2.    It appears to me that nothing more can be done than has already been
devised. Bad women cannot be made good. Prostitutes have their own friends who
do not pay, and they cannot, as far as I see, be prevented coming together. No doubt
many of the prostitutes' male friends are diseased, and the women having contracted
this disease again after having been cured, communicate it to the soldiers.

  3.    Two chaprassis ought to be sufficient for the work they are employed on;
and with hundreds of coolie women—most of them married women—employed by
the Public Works Department, or private individuals, on every side of Naini Tál, I
do not see how soldiers wandering about the jungles in every direction can be looked
after by chaprassis. I recommend no alteration.

ANNUAL REPORT ON THE NAINI TÁL LOCK-HOSPITAL FOR 1877.

  Hospital accommodation.—There has been no change in the hospital accommoda-
tion during the year, and it has been sufficient for the highest number admitted in any
month.

  The native doctor's quarters are, however, ridiculously small, being one room
9 X 12½ feet for every purpose. He certainly should have lodging allowance given
him, or be provided with more suitable quarters.

  There are no servants' quarters either, a fact commented on yearly by successive
deputy surgeons-general.

  Medical charge.—The undersigned took over medical charge on the 7th February,
1877, from Surgeon R. Drury, A.M.D., proceeding to England.

  Extent of venereal diseases among European troops.—Out of a total average
strength of 239.16 in the year, 31 cases of primary syphilis were admitted to the
European military hospital, but of these three are noted as having been contracted on
the march in the month of May. Thirty cases of gonorrhœa were admitted in the
same period, and of these four also were contracted on the same march.

  Twenty-eight admissions for primary syphilis out of a strength of 239.16 =
11.70 per cent.; 26 admissions out of a like strength for gonorrhœa = 10.87 per
cent.