Report of a departmental committee on the prevalence of venereal disease among the British troops in India.

Date:
1897
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Credit: Report of a departmental committee on the prevalence of venereal disease among the British troops in India. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Last year, I am glad to say, the improvement was most marked, as your Excellency will see from the following statement:— Bengal Army. 1888. 1889. Increase. Decrease. Total number of men punished Number of cases of insubordination with 2*34 per cent. 2'01 per cent. — • 33 per cent. violence - Number of cases of drunkenness tried by 307 257 — 50 court-martial - - - 119 98 — 51 Number of men sentenced to imprison- ment with hard labour Number of men discharged with igno- 957 781 17G miny - * - - 110 79 21 In the Madras and Bombay Armies the results are equally satisfactory. Put in the most appreciable form, the following figures give the convictions by court-martial, as compared with the preceding year: — In Bengal the number of courts-martial decreased by Id* 11 per cent. „ Madras ,, „ increased by 122 „ „ Bombay „ „ decreased by 17 * 29 „ E. Roberts.