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vigilance or comparative indifference of the regimental authorities. The
marked improvement which the lock hospital returns show to have taken
place in the garrisons of Oudh is chiefly due to the personal exertions
of the General Commanding the Division.

      3. The area within which registration was attempted was the same
as in the previous year. In nearly all cases the rules are extended to an
area of four or five miles around cantonments. At Chakráta these are
limited to cantonments only, but it is proposed that they should be
extended to a four-mile radius (page 61). This is a question that must
be determined in the Military Department. The registration within
cantonments seems in all stations, to be fairly strict, but beyond the
cantonment boundaries it is often nominal. In no town do the authori-
ties attempt to register any prostitutes except those visited by European
soldiers. The utility of this imperfect registration principally depends
on the vigilance of the town police. Where they are active, a fair mea-
sure of success is attained. In Meerut, the cantonment committee
have brought the defectiveness of the city registration to the notice of
the Magistrate, and he has taken steps to remedy it (page 35). This
might be also done by the cantonment committees of other towns, in
which the registration of prostitutes outside cantonments is most defect-
ive, and Magistrates will be directed by this Government to aid in
securing a more efficient registration.

      4. The report shows that comparatively little disease is contracted
by the troops from registered prostitutes. Improvement in the existing
state of things must be sought in the suppression of illicit prostitution,
whether within or outside the protected area. This will be specially
considered in the local Governments' reply to the resolution of the
Government of India, in the Home Department, suggesting the amend-
ment of the Cantonment Act, and of the rules framed under section
XIX., clause 7 of it. Here it is enough to notice the importance of
regimental measures of detection and inspection. The good results of
keeping the troops out of the native town are seen in the instance of
Cawnpore. Much of the illicit prostitution which goes on in canton-
ments might be checked by regimental police, and by carefully keeping
coolie and low-caste women from the vicinity of the lines.

      5. The points enumerated by the Sanitary Commissioner in his
para. 94, (page 131) are recommended to the special attention of the
Government of India. They are questions which for the most part can
only be disposed of by the Military Department. A few of them require
notice.

      Point 6th.—The Cantonment Magistrate of Ránikhet complains
that the lock hospital peons cannot enter a prostitute's house in the per-
formance of their duties. Under rule 22 of the lock hospital rules, a
Cantonment Magistrate can give special authority to a police officer, or to
any other person, to inspect the houses of prostitutes. This rule,
however, applies only to registered prostitutes but I am to say that if
the receiving of visits from European soldiers was proved against other