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Excerpt from Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, 1904, Vol. 15 In Russia, the ratio of syphilitic cases for the period 1889 - 93 ranged from to 12 per 1000 more extended or later st atis tics are not available. In Great Britain, according to the reports of the Army Medi cal Department, during the period 1870 - 82, prostitution in cer tain garrison towns was under sanitary control, while in others it was entirely unrestricted. The result was that in the former towns (under control) the ratio of admissions was only 50 per 1000 men, while in the latter (unrestricted) it was 118. In 1883, the compulsory examination of prostitutes having ceased in all Great Britain, the rate in the towns previously under con trol rose to 110, and to 138 in 1884. In the whole United King dom, the proportion of venereal diseases admitted to hospital (therefore probably not including minor cases) for the period 1889 - 98 was per 1000, with 85 for syphilis; in 1898 it fell down to with for syphilis. And in 1899 to with for syphilis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.