Whatever you do, make certain of going home clean.  Be sure of your health and doubly sure before you embark.  While you are in the army and on this side of the world you can be cured easily and privately.  If you go home infected, there will be embarrassment and expense to yourself and great danger to the women and children you love.

     Get cured NOW.” (Paris, April, 1919).[K]

[Footnote I:  The following is taken from a paper read by Captain H.L.  Walker, Canadian Medical Service, O.C.  Report Centre (British), Paris, at Conference on V.D., organised by the American Red Cross in April, 1918:—­

“Speaking in regard to licensed houses, Captain Walker said that he had not found one case of venereal disease contracted in a licensed house in the City of Paris, and he could only suppose that the people who were responsible for putting the licensed houses in Paris out of bounds knew nothing at all about the real facts of the case....  In the licensed houses in the City of Paris, during the year 1917, only five cases of venereal disease were contracted; and in 1918, up to April 20th (the day he was speaking), there had not been one case of venereal disease contracted in a licensed house in the City of Paris.  But out of 200 women arrested on the streets of Paris during the month of April, over twenty-five per cent. were found to be infected with venereal disease.  In the months of November and December, 1917, the French authorities had made a round-up on one boulevard of seventy-one women, of whom fifty-five were infected with venereal disease; a few days later the French authorities repeated the same procedure on another boulevard; something like one hundred women were arrested, and ninety-one per cent. were infected with venereal disease.”—­p. 134, Public Health (England), September, 1918.

I supervised a tolerated house in Paris for over twelve months (1918-1919), and had no cases of disease either among the women or the men.  The women attended from 2 p.m. to midnight and resided in their own homes.—­E.A.R.]

[Footnote J:  Among the first medical men in Great Britain to recognise the importance and effectiveness of self-disinfection was Mr. Frank Kidd, M.A., M.Ch. (Camb.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), etc., of the London Hospital.  A full statement of his evidence before the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases is given in Mr. Kidd’s book, “Common Diseases of the Male Urethra” (published by Longmans, Green and Co., 39, Paternoster Row, London, etc., in 1917).  The diagram of male organs of generation I have used on page 36 was taken in outline from Mr. Kidd’s frontispiece, and during the war I found all the illustrations he gave most helpful with the soldiers, although the book itself was written for the purpose of enabling doctors in outlying districts to treat patients on modern lines with success.  Mr. Kidd designed prophylactic tubes, which have been sold in England on his order for more than fifteen years.  He tells me they have been used all over the world by his patients, and that as far as he can ascertain “they have never failed, when used properly and intelligently.”—­E.A.R.]