ord of venereal diseases and their increase is
kept by Denmark, Copenhagen especially. Here venereal diseases, with
special regard to syphilis, developed as follows:--

Venereal Of these,
Year. Population. Diseases. 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 gewerbsmaessigen
Unzucht."

[102] "Ueber Gelegenheitsmacherei und oeffentliches Tanzvergnuegen."

[103] "Die Prostitution im 19. Jahrhundert vom sanitaetspolizeilichen
Standpunkt."

[104] Zweiter Verwaltungsbericht des Koenigl. Polizei-Praesidiums von
Berlin fuer die Jahre 1881-1890; pp. 351-359

[105] "Korrespondenzblatt zur Bekaempfung der oeffentlichen
Sittenlosigkeit," August 15, 1893.

[106] "Die gesundheitschaedliche Tragweite der Prostitution," Dr. Oskar
Lassar.

[107] "Die Behandlung der Geschlechtskrankheiten in Krankenkassen und
Heilanstalten."

[108] In