STATISTIOS, DATA and REPORTS from VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD.
AUSTRIA.
Regulation still exists. In Vienna in
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1,441 1912
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When war broke out in 1914 the 551 controlled brothels in Austria contained 6,797 prostitutes. The prostitutes in Vionna alone were computed at 40,000. Of the 6,000,000 population of German Austria 500,000 were infected with Venereal Disease: 75% of the youths under 20 years of age had been to a brothel. (2)
The
During the period 1909-14 the population of Austria and particularly Vienna, had considerably increased. ratio of inscribed to non-inscribed women generally, in Europe has been reckoned as anything from 1/5 to 1/20.
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In Vienna in 1916, 6,666 women were examined were infected: in 1918 out of 5,540 women examined were infected: in 1930 out of 7,240 women examined were infected: (3) in 1922 there were 5,541 uncontrolled prostitutes, of whom 1,183 were suffering from veneroal diseases.
Public opinion still supports regulation but there aro indications of a change in that the 8 voluntary societies in- terested in Public Health and Welfare that receive subsidies amounting to 250,000 Kronen from the Ministry of Health, in- clude in their programmes the following points :-
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Universal compulsory treatment.
Limited compulsory notification by a doctor. Institution of clinics and if necessary compulsory
treatment as an in-patient in a hospital, practical payment to be made by the State.
State prohibition of certain forms of treatment. Compulsory examination of suspicious cases on a
doctor's report.
Compulsory treatment of all sufferers from Venereal
Disease.
Abolition of "regulation".
Equal treatment for both soxes (4).
Dr. Weinberger, Director of Public Morals, in control
of the regulation of prostitution at the Internationaļ Congress of Police in Vienna 1923 stated :-
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"Prostitution itself cannot be fought by the law it can only be looked on as the source of evils
Logically, which the Law can and must suppress. therefore, the State Control of Prostitution must cease and the hardest fight be against V.D.
An effective Law against V.D. is the surest protection against the consoquences of Prostitution and the surest road to the solution of the problem presented by Prostitution".
Į "Prostitution in Europe" by Flexner. p.144.
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"Volkerwacht" 22nd September, 1922.
"Lancet” 26th March, 1922.
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