The prevalence of venereal disease in prostitutes has been discussed elsewhere (Willcox, 1960, 1961). It has been shewn that prostitutes are still heavily infected with venereal diseases. In the present paper data are considered relating to venereal disease in the population at large arising from prostitutes in a number of Asian countries and in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States...

For many years venereal diseases have been a major problem in Greenland. Since the early 1950s gonorrhoea has been widely prevalent; in the middle of the 1960s the incidence increased rapidly. Since the early 1970s syphilis has become widespread in the population, and in 1977 an epidemic of chancroid occurred. The high figures for venereal diseases are basically due to the social change towards...