You had far better carry a blue-light outfit with you as a "town dressing," in the same way as you would carry a "field dressing." If you cannot get an outfit, carry a tiny bottle of pot. permang. lotion and a scrap of cotton wool. If you swob yourself _carefully_ with this, you will not become diseased. Remember always _it is delay that is dangerous_. If there has been delay, use a syringe sufficiently large for the contents to flood the urethra and slightly distend it, so that every nook and cranny is cleansed.
Whatever you do, make certain of _going home clean_. Be sure of your health and doubly sure before you embark. While you are in the army and on this side of the world you can be cured easily and privately. If you go home infected, there will be embarrassment and expense to yourself and _great danger_ to the women and children you love.
_Get cured NOW._" (Paris, April, 1919).[K]
[Footnote I: The following is taken from a paper read by Captain H.L. Walker, Canadian Medical Service, O.C. Report Centre (British), Paris, at Conference on V.D., organised by the American Red Cross in April, 1918:--
"Speaking in regard to licensed houses, Captain Walker said that he _had not found one case of venereal disease_ contracted in a licensed house in the City of Paris, and he could only suppose that the people who were responsible for putting the licensed houses in Paris out of bounds knew nothing at all about the real facts of the case.... In the licensed houses in the City of Paris, during the year 1917, _only five cases of venereal disease_ were contracted; and in 1918, up to April 20th (the day he was speaking), _there had not been one case of venereal disease contracted in a licensed house in the City of Paris_. But out of 200 women arrested on the streets of Paris during the month of April, _over twenty-five per cent. were found to be infected with venereal disease_. In the months of November and December, 1917, the French authorities had made a round-up on one boulevard of seventy-one women, of whom _fifty-five were infected with venereal disease_; a few days later the French authorities repeated the same procedure on another boulevard; something like _one hundred women_ were arrested, _and ninety-one per cent. were infected with venereal disease_."--p. 134, _Public Health_ (England), September, 1918.