All houses of prostitution are visited by the Dispensary physicians once a week; the hour of the visit is known beforehand, and every girl must be present and pass inspection. The examination is private; the result is noted in a "folio" kept by the physician, and a corresponding memorandum is made in the pass-book of the house and on the card of the prostitute. When disease is detected, the mistress of the house is notified, and cautioned not to allow the girl diseased to receive any visitors. That afternoon, or the next morning, she comes or is brought to the Dispensary, where she undergoes a second examination, and, if the result is the same as at the first, she is forthwith sent to Saint Lazare for treatment. Free prostitutes, that is to say, those who live in lodgings or rooms furnished by themselves, are bound to visit the Dispensary, and submit to examination once a fortnight. They choose the time and day themselves, but more than a fortnight must not elapse between the visits. It appears, from tables published by M. Parent-Duchatelet, that these rules are strictly enforced. Free prostitutes are visited nearly thirty times a year, and prostitutes in tolerated houses more than fifty times. We have alluded elsewhere to the results of the visits. Experience has proved that the only safe method of punishment for prostitutes is imprisonment. Formerly they were whipped, and at a later date their hair was cut off; but the humane spirit of modern legislation has rejected both these punishments as unduly cruel. At the present day, offenses against the rules concerning prostitution (_delits de prostitution_) are punished by imprisonment; misdemeanors and crimes provided against by the code being within the cognizance of the ordinary courts in the case of prostitutes as well as other persons. _Delits de prostitution_ have been divided by the _Bureau des Moeurs_ into two classes, slight offenses and grave offenses; slight offenses are: 1. To appear in forbidden places. 2. To appear at forbidden hours. 3. To get drunk, and lie down in doorways, streets, or other thoroughfares. 4. To demand admittance to guard-houses. 5. To walk through the streets in daylight in such a way as to attract the notice of people passing. 6. To rap on the windows of their rooms. 7. To absent themselves from the medical inspection. 8. To beg. 9. To remain more than twenty-four hours in their house, after having been pronounced diseased by the physician. 10. To escape from the Hospital or Dispensary. 11. To go out of doors with bare head or neck. 12. To remain in Paris after having been ordered to leave, and presented with a passport. This class of offenses is punished by imprisonment for not less than a fortnight or more than three months. One month is the usual term. A prostitute is held to be guilty of grave offenses when she 1. Insults outrageously the visiting physician.