Note 488 — Chapter VII · REGULATION AND DISEASE

This would appear the more charitable explanation of the fact that 429 inmates of Paris bordells showed one case of syphilis in 1902; 312 showed none in 1903. Turot, loc. cit., p. 70. In the Roman brothels, “not oftener than once in three or four months is a girl discovered who is diseased and forced to withdraw from the house!” In one establishment it was declared that no girl had been disbarred for years on account of disease: an instance was however recalled—“four years ago.”