Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found the Polynesian race disappearing under the stress of drink, disease, and the intense com- mercialism of American life ; this was particularly the case in Honolulu. After a stay of two months in the islands of Maui, Hawaii, and Oahu, I went on to Japan via Yokohama, and found it to be the most interesting country that I had yet visited. Ever since the days of our Queen Elizabeth, prostitution had been more or less under control, and in 1898 rigorous medical and legislative measures were in force and enforced. The Japanese race is an exceptionally healthy and vigorous one, very few cripples and deformed persons are to be found ; and this may or may not be due to the fact that from about 1610 to 1854 the country was closed to foreigners, and preserved from the drink and disease of the white races. For years and years women of a certain class have been compelled to occupy quarters assigned to them, and were consequently able to practise cleanliness of a most scrupulous character, and at the same time kept entirely apart from the rest of the community. This is a vast improve- ment upon the Anglo-American plan of periodi- cally or continually chasing these unfortunates from pillar to post, which forms such a cruel