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Excerpt from Prostitution and Its Sanitary Management
Or, in brief, for five years before the Act, there was an ah nual diminution Of 21 admissions to hospital per 1000 of mean strength, while, for the two years after the Act, the diminution was only 12 per 1000, annually.
It appears, therefore, that the Act has not rendered the five districts to which it applied any better for the army. The Ope ration of the Act on the British army in Bengal was perfectly similar, admissions to hospital under it having increased from 166 to 199 per 1000 of mean strength.
It has been claimed, that the French armies were made much more free from venereal diseases than the British army by the license system, and figures of the relative numbers of venereal cases admitted to hospitals are quoted from the military reports to sustain the idea; but the comparison is worthless, for this reason, in the French army the venereal cases are nearly all treated, as the phrase goes, in quarters, and do not appear on hospital record, while in the British service they all go to the hospital, and stand recorded on the books. Hence the official registers of the two nations furnish no means of comparing the amount of venereal disease in their armies. In the army of Holland the same results are seen. After the license system was put in operation there, the venereal diseases among the soldiers diminished in some towns and increased in others, but the average result was an increase. Before the adoption of the plan, there were, in soldiers, 1786 venereal cases, equal to per cent., but since the act attempting forcible regulation, the venereal cases have increased to per cent. (statistics published by Dr. Huet, lst physician to hospital at Amsterdam.)
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