Year. | Population. | Venereal Diseases. | Of these, Syphilis. |
| 1874 | 196,000 | 5,505 | 836 |
| 1879 | 227,000 | 6,299 | 934 |
| 1885 | 290,000 | 9,325 | 1,866 |
Among the personnel of the navy in Copenhagen, the number of venereal diseases increased 1224 per cent. during the period mentioned; in the army and for the same period, 227 per cent.[122] And how stands it in Paris? From the year 1872 to the year 1888, the number of persons treated for venereal diseases in the hospitals Du Midi, de Lourcine and de St. Louis was 118,223, of which 60,438 suffered of syphilis and 57,795 of other venereal affections. Besides these, of the number of outside persons, who applied to the clinics of the said three hospitals, there was a yearly average of 16,385 venereals.[123]
We have seen how, as a result of our social conditions, vice, excesses, wrongs and crimes of all sorts are bred. All society is kept in a state of unrest. Under such a state of things woman is the chief sufferer.
Numerous women realize this and seek redress. They demand, first of all, economic self-support and independence; they demand that woman be admitted, as well as man, to all pursuits that her physical and mental powers and faculties qualify her for; they demand, especially, admission to the occupations that are designated with the term "liberal professions." Are the efforts in these directions justified? Are they practical? Would they mend matters? These are questions that now crowd forward.
FOOTNOTES:
[100] "Geschichte, Statistik und Regelung der Prostitution in Wien."
[101] "Die Bestrafung und polizelliche Behaundlung der gewerbsmässigen Unzucht."
[102] "Ueber Gelegenheitsmacherei und öffentliches Tanzvergnügen."
[103] "Die Prostitution im 19. Jahrhundert vom sanitätspolizeilichen Standpunkt."
[104] Zweiter Verwaltungsbericht des Königl. Polizei-Präsidiums von Berlin für die Jahre 1881-1890; pp. 351-359