Note 628 — Chapter X · ABOLITION AND DISEASE

This provision was in a somewhat different form included in the Regulatory Statute of 1866, where it was provided that a registered prostitute could be punished if she knowingly communicated infection; but punishments were rare, since the girl could always shield herself behind the fact that the police surgeons had pronounced her well—an interesting illustration of the way in which the medical examination may defeat its own object.