streets of that city, of whom only five thousand
were registered as under police surveillance, while
two thousand five hundred hotels were used for
assignation purposes. He has also stated that at
one time he found the incidence of infection in the
American Expeditionary forces from some generic conjugated estrogens kind of
venereal disease about 330 in a thouand, i. e., about
one in three ; and that there was no special effort
made to lower this rate. Eventually, however, it
was reduced to ninety-four in a thousand. In
August and September, 1917, the incidence among
five thousand British troops in Pairs was two hun-
dred in a thousand. The ratio alluded to above by
Moore was said to be four times greater than else-
where among our men in zones occupied by them,
the inference being that special eft'orts were capable
of reducing the disease, if proper measures were
adopted. (1)
Someone was responsible for this wholesale infec-
tion. Was there collusion or laxity on the part of
the French officials, or our own? In either case
*^(
Octobtr 30. 1920.]
SATTERTHWAITE: INCREASES I.\ TEXEREAL DISEASES.
679
should not the guilt)' be held morally, if not other-
\vise, responsible for failure to prevent infections,
which must necessarily lead, if they have not premarin tablets already
done so, to widespread disease throughout the
United States and France. Humanity demands an
investigation. Of this there can be no doubt, for
public prostitution is capable of being controlled in
time of war by military or civil authorities, the first
naturally being the more effective. I know this
from personal experience in one of the provincial
towns of France, where at one time it had assumed
the order premarin online proportions of an epidemic. Civil control by
local police, with legal punishment, such as prevails
in Denmark, is also buy cheap premarin a powerful agency in this re-
gard, provided the laws are properly administered.
It may not be generally known, but I believe it to
be true, from my experience, that French prosti-
tutes are likely to be contaminated with aggravated
forms of venereal diseases. We have the authority
of the New York Medical Journal (2) that vene-
real diseases increased greatly during the war, and
on the authority of Riddell, (3) there are probably
more than half a million syphilitics now in Canada,
forty thousand of them being in Toronto. But buy conjugated estrogens online it is
generally agreed that the increase in Europe has
been more marked than on this side of the water,
pointing to the probability that Europe has been
largely responsible for the increase over here.
This statement is also borne out by Miss Ettie A.
Rout (4). According to Miss Rout the British premarin cost
military rate in 1917 was twenty-seven in a thou-
sand. In 1919 it had risen to eighty in a thousand,
while in the present year it is still higher. She also
says "probably no European country has less than
three or four times the amount of venereal diseases
it had in 1913-1914."
We come now to one of the special causes of in-
fection. generic premarin Writing in the Daily Herald, of London,
E. D. Morel (5) has stated that he was premarin online informed by buy premarin
letters, personal statements, and other data, which
he regarded as premarin price trustworthy, that eighteen months
after the armistice, when the French had from thirty
to forty thousand of their colored African troops
in the Bavarian Palatinate, these men were raping
women and girls, so that in this zone their victims
filled the hospitals to overflowing, naturally spread- purchase premarin
ing syphilis, with which they were to a large extent
affected, buy conjugated estrogens right and left. As is known to many of
the premarin mg purchase premarin online medical profession, the colored race is contam-
inated order premarin with syphilis to a much larger buy premarin online degree than
the white race. cheap premarin Recently at Fort Riley, Kansas, the
incidence of syphilis among the colored troops was
set at about twenty-three per cent, against about
thirteen per cent, among the white (6) . Though sta-
tistics on this point are not very numerous, the con-
sensus of medical opinion is that the general inci-
dence among colored people is much greater than
among the whites.
In this connection the report of Moron (7) throws
some light on the matter. He states that syphilis is
not taken seriously by the colored people of Mada-
gascar, a French protectorate. Indeed, with them
syphilis in young girls is regarded as an asset, be-
cause brides are then immune against subsequent at-
tacks, and their value in the matrimonial market is
thereh\' enhanced. Notwithstanding, if Dr. E. J.
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