The rules for detection and suppression of syphilis in Copenhagen are very stringent. All persons under arrest are required to declare if they are then, or have been lately diseased, and are liable to punishment if they conceal or misstate the facts. A visit of inspection is made when a ship is about to go to sea. All non-commissioned officers, musicians, and soldiers are examined on entering and leaving the service, and also regularly every month during their stay in it. To check the propagation of venereal disease, every soldier who is attacked is obliged to state the source of his infection, whereupon information of the individual is given to the police. Those who do not give early intimation of their disease are liable to bread and water diet for a certain time after their cure. In 1797, all the inhabitants of several districts were obliged to submit to an examination, ordered by the chancellor, on account of the frequency of syphilitic cases therein. The following table, taken from Berhand's minute on Copenhagen, shows the working of the system there for seven years. The most remarkable feature is the large number who married or went to service, which would seem to indicate a more charitable feeling on the part of the Danes than is usually evinced toward these unfortunates: +---------------------------------- | | Prostitutes registered. | | |--------------------------| |Years.| At |During| | | |commencement| the |Total.| | |of the year.|year. | | | | | | | | | | | | |------|------------|------|------| | 1844 | 297 | 34 | 331 | | 1845 | 284 | 43 | 327 | | 1846 | 256 | 18 | 274 | | 1847 | 241 | 22 | 263 | | 1848 | 116 | 27 | 143 | | 1849 | 208 | 19 | 227 | | 1850 | 196 | 23 | 219 | +----------------------------------