ABSTRACT
There is a popular fiction which comes to the front whenever prostitution is a subject for discussion, to the effect that once a girl has taken to the streets for a living she continues on a steadily downward path until, afflicted with those diseases which are supposed to be peculiar to her profession, she either dies in the gutter while pursuing her career, or ends her days miserably in a hospital or a prison. And there are still people who honestly believe that those afflicted with “the disease” in its graver forms are finally smothered to save them further misery and their associates from infection.
