Note 223 — Chapter XXXVI
Reading edition
The percentage in conscripts in 1918 was 2.2 per cent, against 2.5 per cent, in 1917 and 2.7 per cent, in 1916. ("Not less than 10 per cent. of the population of our large towns are infected with syphilis and a much larger proportion with gonorrhœa."— Sir James Crichton-Browne.) The figures for the general population of Japan must be higher.