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      19 In 1875 there were 506 admissions, and in 1876 there were 424 admissions.

      20 Out of 51 women who have been brought to hospital for examination and
registration 34 have been found to be diseased ; and of these 34, 11 have been suffer-
ing from primary syphilis.

      21 Diseases of the women. —The registered prostitutes have been, considering
the nature of their occupation, remarkably healthy. Primary syphilis amongst them
is utterly unknown; not a single case of secondary or constitutional syphilis has been
seen amongst them for very many months.

      22 Out of the 419 cases admitted, 304 have been cases of leucorrhœa, a com-
paratively harmless disease ; and of the 304, a large majority of the cases were of a
most trifling character, admitted only as a measure of precaution.

      23 The chief cause of the absence of serious disease amongst the registered
women is the regularity and frequency of the examinations. Under no circumstances,
save serious illness, not of a venereal character, is a woman excused from the inspec-
tions: consequently disease either to lie concealed or to develope itself to a serious
extent has not time or opportunity.

      24 During the whole year I and my assistant examined 8,698 women ; i.e., we
examined all the women on the register 104 times ; and out of all this large number
only 419 cases of disease have been admitted.

      25 Now, observation of this fact leads us clearly to see that a very small amount
of disease really exists amongst the registered women ; and when it is remembered
that of these 419 cases only about 115 present any serious features, tangible ground
exists for satisfaction at the power possessed for keeping healthy those women selected
for the use of the troops.

      26 The women are not detained in hospital during their monthly illness, except
in cases of suspected concealed disease. During this period the women's tickets are
left unsigned by me, so that the absence of the signature may warn the soldier that
reasons exist for his having no communication with women whose tickets do not bear
my initials. These women are placed under surveillance by the dhaie, and she is held
responsible for their continence.

      27 Dhaie.—One has been employed in the sudder bazar chukkla to superintend
the women living there, and she is held responsible for their orderly conduct; she
has about 80 women under her control, and her life is not always a bed of roses.

      28 Native hospital assistant.—Sheikh Abdul Wahid has performed his duties
to my entire satisfaction.

      29 General conclusions.—The main object in the establishment of Government
lock-hospitals is of course the diminution, or, if possible, the extinction, of venereal
disease amongst the European troops.

      30 It will now be my duty to show how far we have succeeded in this object
during the past year, where we have failed, and the causes for such failure.

      31 I append here a table showing the monthly admissions amongst the troops : —

TABLE A.

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