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      At Jhánsi it is recorded that a system of regimental police was enforced during
the year, to the almost total extinction of unlicensed prostitution (para. 81).

      106. The stations of increased prevalence, as compared with the record of the
years before lock hospitals were established, are :—

      The cause of failure is thus recorded.

      At Cawnpore disease prevailed chiefly in the first six months of the year, and its
decrease as the year advanced was due to the withholding of indulgences by Com-
manding Officers;to the employment of specially selected regimental police for the
detection of unlicensed women; to increased diligence of the native police. It follows
that these necessary measures were neglected during the first six months of the year.
Also it is recorded that all prostitutes of cantonments are registered, yet that soldiers
contracted disease from women prowling in nalas (para. 11). The Commissioner
records the opinion that the decrease of disease as the year advanced was due to greater
restrictions placed on the liberty of the soldiers by Commanding Officers (para. 14).

      At Agra failure was due to the general prostitution of women impoverished by
famine, no effectual means having yet been devised for the suppression of illicit
prostitution.

      The Military Police did not arrest one woman guilty of this offence (para. 17).

      At Bareilly it was due to the great amount of illicit prostitution which the
venereal picket was useless to prevent.

      At Benares the ill success was due to disease contracted by the soldiers from un-
licensed women of the population. Such form of prostitution being probably impossi-
ble of prevention at Benares (para. 47).

      The Cantonment Committee are of opinion that soldiers at Benares will not resort
to registered women (para. 48).

      At Moradabad the undue prevalence was owing to intercourse of the soldiers with
unregistered women. Only one such woman was arrested during the year (para. 53).

      And to their intercourse with vagrant pauper women (para. 54).

      At Ranikhet the failure was due to the temptation offered by unregistered women
in woods and ravines. Neither the European or native police did much to repress this
illicit intercourse, which can be prevented only by the hearty co-operation of the
regimental authorities (para. 63).

      At Naini Tal the cause was the great amount of unlicensed prostitution which
cannot be prevented. The European police appointed for that purpose could not pre-
vent the soldiers meeting vile women outside cantonment limits (para. 88).

      At Muttra the cause of failure was the presence of diseased women who accom-
panied the regiment from Agra, and the presence of unregistered women lurking
about the barracks, two of whom only were arrested during the year (para. 93).