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disease could best be dealt with from the public health stand- point. To these Conferences were invited delegates from the Governments concerned and from the official venereal disease Organisations recognised either by the Governments or by the Red Cross Societies, end in every case the personnel of the Conference was mainly medical.

Resolution passed by the International Regional Red Cross Conferences Copenhagen, May 20th-25th, 1921. including Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Norway and Sweden.)

"THAT the regulation and official toleration of pro-

fessional prostitution has been found to re medically useless as a check on the spread of venereal diseases and may even prove positively harmful, tending as they do to give official sanction to a vicious traffic."

Resolution adopted by the Conference of Countries of Western Europe for the Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases (Including France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.) Paris, December, 1921.

"LA REGLEMENTATION de la prostitution ne jouant pas le

role prophylactique que l'on a cru pouvoir lui attribuer, les moyens prophylactiques modernes educatifs et therapeutiques, peuvent la remplacer avantageusement."

Resolution adopted by the Conference of Societies of the Red Cross of Eastern Europe for the Prophylaxis of Venereal Disease, Prague, December 1921.

"La reglementation actuelle de la prostitution doit

être remplacer par:

(a)

une loi relative aux maladies veneriennes dans laquelle hommes et femmes seraient places sur un pied d'egalite absolue.

(b) des mesures visant les clauses fondamentales de la

prostitution:

des mesures sociales et economiques. l'explication au public et a la jeunesse des

dangers sociaux de la prostitution.

(3) des mesures on vue de la protection efficace

de la jeunesse.

(4) la lutte efficace contre l'alcoolisme.

des mesures contre le proxenetisme.

des mesures servant a elever la moralite.

la creation d'etablissements d'education pour

les jeunes gens en danger au point de vue monale.

(e) des mesures concernant la protection de la femme

o de la jeune fille (protection des filles- meres et des enfants illegitimes.}"

The policy of abolishing the Red Light Districts in the United States having already been adopted and put in force during the war, the Resolutions at the corresponding All-America Con- ference on Venereal Diseases held in 1920 dealt mainly with methods of enforcing the law in order to obtain the effective suppression of known centres of prostitution and to procure the continuous treatment of all known infective persons in the community.