Figured out a hack...
1) Go to the components -> com_jphoto -> category -> tmpl folder
2) Edit default.php - look for the following line:<p><?php JText::printf('This gallery contains %s%s images%s', '<strong>', $imgs, '</strong>'); ?></p>
</div> and comment it out using HTML comment tags (that would be <!-- for the beginning of the line of code and --> for the end of the line).
3) Do the same thing in the components -> com_jphoto -> categories -> tmpl -> default.php file for the following line of code: <p><?php JText::printf('%sStats:%s %s Galler'.(($gals>1)?'ies':'y').' with %s images', '<strong>', '</strong>', $gals, $imgs); ?></p>
This will effectively remove Stats from your galleries, but in a non-destructive kind of way, just in case you want to reactivate the feature at a later point.