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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    selves by being too respectable to discuss the subject. I reached Calcutta via Burmah, and spent two and a half months in India, the country being in a distressing condition from plague, famine, small- pox, and venereal disease ; for the last the admis- sion rate for our army was again high. I finally landed at Liverpool in June 1900, visit- ing en route Aden, Turkish Arabia, Erythraea (the Italian colony next to Abyssinia), Suakin, Egypt, and Palestine, and went on to Manchester, where I was impressed with the degenerate appearance of the male population. This district furnishes the highest percentage of rejections for physical unfitness for recruits for the army. In due course of time I became the Resident Medical Officer for fourteen months in a provincial hospital, and here, as in many hospitals, venereal disease is not allowed treatment, out of deference to middle-class prejudices ; several deplorable cases came under my notice, and I always did what I could for them. About this time a statement was made in the House of Lords by the then Lord Chancellor, that forty-three per cent, of the in- mates of our blind institutions were the victims of contagious disease, chiefly of a natal character.