Years. Average Total. Patients. Patients. 1812 51 612 1813 79 948 1814 102 1224 1815 Report missing. 1816 88 1056 1817 76 912 1818 68 816 1819 58 696 1820 62 744 1821 55 660 1822 Report missing. 1823 69 828 1824 84 1008 1825 81 972 1826 93 1116 1827 Report missing. 1828 104 1248 1829 99 1188 1830 91 1092 1831 110 1320 1832 78 936 ----- 17376 Add approximate estimate for three years wanting 3250 ----- Total diseased in twenty years 20626[208] Other tables, apparently drawn with care, show that the proportion of disease to prostitutes varies widely in different years. In 1828 it was six per cent., that is to say, six out of every hundred prostitutes were diseased; but in 1832 it was barely three per cent. Four or five per cent. would seem a tolerably fair average.[209] From another table compiled by the same author we gather that, during a period of eighteen years, January was found the most fatal month for prostitutes; next came August and September; while February, April, May, and July seemed seasons less favorable to disease. M. Duchatelet, however, candidly admits that he can trace the operation of no law here, and inclines to the belief that the variation is wholly due to chance.[210] CHAPTER X. FRANCE.--PRESENT REGULATIONS.