The Contagious Diseases Acts : the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, '66, '68 (Ireland), '69, from a sanitary and economic point of view : being a paper read before the Medical Society of University College, London, on Thursday, November 30th, 1871 / by C.W. Shirley Deakin.

  • Deakin, Charles Washington Shirley.
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1872
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    proportion of 1 in 289, 1854, was 1 in 200 in 1867. M. Lecour again is the professed authority; on p. 721 of the paper quoted (Archives Generates de Medecine 1867, tome ii.) he really says that The Keport for the month of September, 1867, gives two cases of syphilis for every 100 women of the maisons tole're'es, and one case in every 200 women in furnished lodgings. Moreover, M. Lecour gives on this same page 721, only four lines further down, a table of the number of registered women found syphilitic, who he says are without exception (sans aucune exception) treated at St Lazare. ' This table gives the number of syphilitic women annually sent to that establishment from 1857 to 1866, and these numbers steadily fall year by year from 982 in 1857, to 277 in 1866. And on page 722 M. Lecour gives another table for the same period of 1857 to 1866, showing that the number of the women living in private lodgings (maisons gamies) who are found annually syphilitic, has not increased (134- in 1857 112 in 1866), but the number of women living in maisons toUrees found syphilitic has steadily decreased from 933 in 1857, to 229 in 1866. 'Further, on page 727, is another table of the women arrested for clandestine prostitution, during the same period of 1857-1866, which shows that while the number of women arrested has increased from 1,405 in 1857 to 1,988 in 1866, the number found syphilitic has remained station- ary—namely, 434 in 1857, and 432 in 1866. ' All the preceding figures are given in the very paper quoted by the Westminster Reviewer. (Berkeley Hill.) I have given a table (IV.) from Dr. Vintras' book* which shows the diminution of disease among, both les files des maisons and les files isole'es and also among the clandestines arrested, and these figures are those drawn up by order of the French government for the Home Office. M. Lecour's figiues differ from some of these, and I have also added a table (IV.) showing this fact for the four years up to 1869, so that you may see the French system from its least favourable aspect. On page 40, Dr. Chapman gives the admission at the two venereal hospitals during the years 1851-55, showing a steady increase year by year. M. Lecour in his new work ( La Prostitution k Paris etuLondres. Paris, Asselin 1870, p. 86) gives the admissions for 1867 and 1868; these figures are:— 1851 1855 1867 1868 L'Ourcine ... 1102 1384 1030 1024 Midi (for Males) 3019 3632 3226 3185 Thus though Paris has increased, the total amount of disease has diminished. How we wish that Dr. Chapman instead of finding the mote in Mr. Acton's eye would pull the beam out of his own ! Repressive Measures, &c. Hnrdwick, Piccadilly.