cannot get an outfit, carry a tiny bottle of pot. permang.
lotion and a scrap of cotton wool. If you swob yourself _carefully_
with this, you will not become diseased. Remember always _it is
delay that is dangerous_. If there has been delay, use a syringe
sufficiently large for the contents to flood the urethra and
slightly distend it, so that every nook and cranny is cleansed.

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