The British Journal of Venereal Diseases

It might be supposed that the most enlightened areas in the country would be the freest from these diseases and that the places where no enlightenment had been undertaken would be hotbeds of disease. He had examined in this respect sixteen counties which had not undertaken any propaganda for ten years; they comprised about one-thrd of the country. Actually the number of service infections in those areas had been lower than the average for the country. He was not saying, of course, that the lack of enlightenment had reduced the amount of venereal disease, but there the facts were. He had to thank all those who had contributed to a useful discussion.