| 1855 | 141 | |
| 1856 | 159 | |
| 1857 | 207 |
As many of the patrons of New York houses of ill fame reside out of the city, some further information must be sought beyond our own limits. Without professing to inquire into the public health in all the suburbs previously enumerated, it will be sufficient to take the reports of the superintendents of the poor of King’s County to ascertain what amount of syphilitic infection has been treated at the public cost in Brooklyn and its environs. The reports of Doctor Thomas Turner, Resident Physician of the King’s County Hospital, show the following cases:
| 1853 | 165 | |
| 1855 | 362 | |
| 1857 | 311 |
or about ten per cent. on the total number treated.
In the Brooklyn City Hospital the cases of venereal disease received and treated were in
| 1854 | 158 | |
| 1855 | 173 | |
| 1856 | 160 | |
| 1857 | 186 | |
| 1858 (to May 1) | 65 |
It has been already stated that sailors are great patrons of prostitutes, and to obtain any true statement of venereal disease among them, some estimate respecting this class must be made. For this purpose the reports of Dr. T. Clarkson Moffatt, Physician-in-chief of the “Seaman’s Retreat,” Staten Island, New York, are available. The number of cases treated in the several years is here given:
| 1854 | 657 | |
| 1855 | 473 | |
| 1856 | 355 | |
| 1857 | 365 | |
| 1858 (to April 1) | 82 |
This is nearly twenty-four per cent. on the gross number treated.