From the time that the abominable nature of the Contagious Diseases Acts of England and India were made known, and the Acts held up to public execration and outlawed, like a condemned criminal, this System has gone seeking a new _alias_ that its identity might be hidden from the inconvenience of exposure. Many times these laws have been unmasked, and they have never been able to survive the exposure of their real name, which was at the first, "Contagious Diseases Acts." Over and over again has this criminal Law, when caught sneaking about, denied his real name. Like a fatal birthmark, which no power can eradicate, so this abomination has its birthmark, which, when seen, fixes the identity beyond all question. That birthmark is _the compulsory examination of women_. This cannot be made to serve the desired purpose without all the essential features of the C. D. Acts. It makes not the slightest difference whether the law is called the Health Act, as in Australia, Getz's _Projet de Loi_, as in Norway, the Women's and Girls' Protection Ordinance, as at Singapore, the Cantonment Acts or the Cantonments Act, or what not--the test of the law, as to its identity with the old infamous C. D. Acts, is, whether women are obliged to submit to compulsory examination. "In fact, the compulsory examination of women _is_ the C. D. Acts." Let this one point be put into law, and all the rest goes without saying. The battle has always raged around this one central point. To prove that the compulsory examination of women necessitates the regulations that always attend it, let us suppose that in a community this one point is provided for by law, and that the officers of the law are left to enforce the measure, by whatever regulations are necessary:-- The law demands merely that impure women must be examined regularly for the protection of the public health. But the police officer sees at once that to secure this point a list must be kept of the women, when examined, that notice of requirement can be sent to those not coming voluntarily. Thus _registration_ of prostitutes comes to pass. But after examination, those found diseased must be placed by themselves for treatment. Thus a hospital for prostitutes is established. Then provision must be made to compel those who are unwilling to attend the examinations to do so, for it has been the invariable experience that few women will go regularly for examination unless compelled to do so, and also there must be means of enforcing them to remain in hospital. Thus the hospital becomes a _Lock Hospital_, and _fines and imprisonments_ are imposed on delinquents.