Remarks on the Enthetic Diseases Affecting the Health of the Troops Serving in the United Kingdom during the Years 1837-46, 1859, 1860, and 1861
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some questions, cannot be gainsaid as to the matters of fact contained in the medical, sanitary, and statistical reports of the Army Medical Department for the years 1859, 1860, and 1861, connected with those diseases of a special type which are the bane of the British soldier. Public attention has of late been frequently drawn to the unsavoury discussion of syphilis~in the army and navy, and many suggestions have been thrown out, from time to time, in the daily papers and the medical journals, for enforcing such measures as might tend to limit the prevalence of so highly contagious a disease ; and this report has been brought forward rather in the expectation of furnishing a topic for profitable discussion, than from any hope of conveying to this Society anything original. Indeed the nature of the paper only admits of novelty in very limited degree. It may be taken as a mark of a wholesome change in our way of looking at things, no less than an indication of the magnitude which the evils have attained, that at the 118th anniversary festival of the Lock Hospital, held at Willis's Rooms on the 16th of March of the present year, the Duke of Somerset on the part of the navy, and H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, and the Secretary of State for War on the part of the army, pledged the Government to a serious consideration of the matter. Sir John Pakington, who was also present, expressed himself strongly in favour of legislative interference. " From the day when this loathsome disease was first
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