A few remarks on the errors of the article in the Westminster Review on Prostitution, governmental experiments in controlling it, by John Chapman, M.D., reprinted from the January number of the Westminster Review, Trubner and Co., London, 1870.

  • Hill, Berkeley, 1834-1892.
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[1870]
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Credit: A few remarks on the errors of the article in the Westminster Review on Prostitution, governmental experiments in controlling it, by John Chapman, M.D., reprinted from the January number of the Westminster Review, Trubner and Co., London, 1870. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A FEW REMARKS on the Errors of the Article in the <e Westminster Review” on Prostitution: Governmental Experiments in Controlling it: by John Chapman, M.D. Beprinted from the January Number of the “ Westminster Review ” Tetjbnee, and Co., London. 1870. No. 1. On p. 47, the Reviewer says: “ In Paris the treatment “ of venereal diseases is mainly restricted to three hospitals. “ One forms part of the Maison de Saint-Lazare, which is under “ the administration of the prefecture of Police, and which “ contains about 1,300prostitutes, divided into three sections: the first, prisoners; the second, patients; the third, young “ girls imprisoned in conformity with Articles 66 and 67 of the “ Penal Code, or by request of their parents. It thus appears “ that something like a fourth part of all the registered women “ in Paris are confixed in La Maison de Saint-Lazare! “ Usually the number of venereal patients in the hospital of “ this establishment is about 200.” M. Lecour, Chef du Bureau des Moeurs, whom Dr. Chap- man allows to be an “ especially trustworthy authority,” himself writes as follows in the paper from which Dr. Chap- man professes to quote :— Of 3,861 women on the Police Register of Paris on the 1st January, 1867,— 47 were detained awaiting trial 188 were undergoing punishment 90 were in the sick wards. 34 were in various general hospitals for non- venereal complaints Total.. 359 in St. Lazare. Lecour, de la prostitution et des mesures dont ellc est Vobjet a Pans. Archives Generates de Medicine, 1867. Tom. ii p. 725. These 359, for the rest of the 3,861 were at liberty, have, by the Westminster Reviewer, been multiplied into 1,300 ‘‘ or about one fourth of the whole number of registered women in Paris.”