Note 419 — Chapter VII · REGULATION AND DISEASE

Though this book deals only with prostitution in Europe, I venture for the purpose of conclusively establishing the uselessness of the clinical method to refer to the researches of Dr. Archibald McNeil of New York City. Of 647 girls examined, 20.56% had clinical manifestations of disease; of 466 of these same girls, microscopic and other tests showed 89.3% to be venereally infected. See Kneeland, “Commercialized Prostitution in New York City (New York, 1913), pp. 188–190.”