STATE REGULATION A FAILURE.
While the C.D. Acts were in operation in England, the number of recruits per thousand who were rejected for syphillis varied from 10.5(1 to 10.57. After the repeal of the Acts the number immediately fell, and continued to fall almost continuously from 8.18 per thousand in 1886 to 1.85 in 1911. (Flexner’s “Prostitution in Europe.”) Contrast these figures with those which the sum authority gives (page 378) for the German army, where “regulation” ha , been enforced with all the thoroughness for which the Prussian police are famous, and has been in existence almost as long as in France. Flcxner shows that the number of recruits in the Gorman army venereally affected is practically constant at 7.7 per cent. It varies with the size of the towns, and in Berlin it rises to the enormous number of 41.3 per cent.
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 269, 19 November 1917, Page 10
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