Police Records of Lambeth
A soldier from the Front with £18 was taken by a married woman to her home, where he was found after a drunken bout with eight women, all drunk. The woman’s children were terribly neglected.
Police Records of St. Helens, November 30, 1915
If you describe the Waterloo Road and the back streets as an open sewer you will be somewhere near the truth. Not a day goes by without bringing some soldier who has been waylaid.
Facts in the “Times,” February 22, 1917
A soldier came from the Front to go home to Scotland. He got drunk near Waterloo, losing all his money and his railway pass. He spent his leave living on charity, and returned to the Front without having been near either his home or his friends.
Facts in “Daily News,” February 14, 1916
Here is the official proof of the relation of the drink trade to this traffic in disease. It is from the Report of the Royal Commission:
Abundant evidence was given as to the intimate relation between alcohol and venereal diseases.
Alcohol renders a man liable to yield to temptations which he might otherwise resist, and aggravates the disease by diminishing the resistance of the individual.