year 1917, _only five cases of venereal disease_ were contracted;
and in 1918, up to April 20th (the day he was speaking), _there had
not been one case of venereal disease contracted in a licensed
house in the City of Paris_. But out of 200 women arrested on the
streets of Paris during the month of April, _over twenty-five per
cent. were found to be infected with venereal disease_. In the
months of November and December, 1917, the French authorities had
made a round-up on one boulevard of seventy-one women, of whom
_fifty-five were infected with venereal disease_; a few days later
the French authorities repeated the same procedure on another
boulevard; something like _one hundred women_ were arrested, _and
ninety-one per cent. were infected with venereal disease_."--p.
134, _Public Health_ (England), September, 1918.

I supervised a tolerated house in Paris for over twelve months
(1918-1919), and had no cases of disease either among the women or the
men. The women attended from 2 p.m. to midnight and resided in their own
homes.--E.A.R.]

[Footnote J: Among the first medical men in Great Britain to recognise the
importance and effectiveness of self-disinfection was Mr. Frank Kidd,
M.A., M.Ch. (Camb.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), etc., of the London Hospital. A full
statement of his evidence before the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases
is given in Mr. Kidd's book, "Common Diseases of the Male Urethra"
(published by Longmans, Green and Co., 39, Paternoster Row, London, etc.,
in 1917). The diagram of male organs of generation I have used on page 36
was taken in outline from Mr. Kidd's frontispiece, and during the war I
found all the illustrations he gave most helpful with the soldiers,
although the book itself was written for the purpose of enabling doctors
in outlying districts to treat patients on modern lines with success. Mr.