After this event the king became impressed with an idea of the impolicy and impropriety of the "toleration" system, and a lengthy correspondence ensued between the various departments and state officials on the subject; the royal rescripts enunciating the oft-repeated opinions on the subject in general, objecting to the details of the police management, or directing reports on some particular incident of the system; the police authorities, fortified by experience as opposed to theory, adhering to the toleration practice, and demanding increased powers to restrain private prostitution, and compel all such persons to enter the public houses. The matter was brought to a close in 1814 by an order from the crown for a total closing of the tolerated brothels. The police president, Lecoq, thought it advisable to communicate with the authorities of the town of Breslau before he complied with this order, requesting some information as to the state of public morals there, it being stated that there was not a single brothel or registered prostitute to be found within its limits. The reply from the Breslau officials was in the affirmative as to the fact. As to the results, they had consulted with the state physician and the hospital physician, and their opinion was that closing the brothels and withdrawal of toleration _had not been advantageous_, as, in spite of the police vigilance, illicit prostitution had increased since, and procuresses carried on their arts more extensively, their operations being altogether secret, and under no police control; _that the venereal disease had not decreased_; _that nothing counteracted it so effectually as the medical inspection of known brothels_; _and that its secret spread had been so great as to extend its ravages, through the instrumentality of female servants, into respectable families_; that the hospital returns proved but little, because the cases were suffered to run on or were privately cured, but these returns were given as follows: Venereal cases in Illegitimate births Years. Breslau Hospital. in Breslau. 1805 155 .... 1806 202 .... 1807 323 .... 1808 233 .... 1809 150 .... 1810 118 382 1811 98 316 1812 139 282 1813 159 222 The years 1800 and 1807 were those of the French invasion. In 1812 the brothels in Breslau were closed.