"In the Report of the Special Indian Commission appointed in 1893 by the Government of India to inquire into the working of the regulations, it is stated that so far as venereal disease is concerned the operation of the rules is 'practically confined by sheer force of circumstances to women.' ... 'Even with regard to them information is difficult to obtain, for a man often does not know, and still oftener will not tell, which woman has diseased him.' ... 'Except in the not infrequent cases where a woman herself applies for medical aid, this (_i.e._, information necessary to proceed upon) can only be obtained from men who have been diseased by them.' It is clear, then, that a man, as the result of an admittedly immoral act, becomes an informer, and in many cases a false informer, upon whose testimony the State has to rely for submitting the woman to the most degrading process. We submit that there is no parallel between venereal disease and cholera, either in the procedure here indicated, or in the effect of that procedure on moral conduct, or in the position in which it places the State." VI. Some Anglo-Indian Moral Sentiments. WE have referred to the discrepancies between the statements of Lord Roberts and of General Chapman; between Lord Roberts' first attempt to discredit our evidence and subsequent admission of its truth; between the records that had been kept at the Lock Hospitals which we visited in India and the statements sent home by the Special Commission. All these things must tend to weaken the faith of the public in Anglo-Indian representations. They all accord in spirit with the gross exaggerations which have been put forth, as though a veritable scourge of such diseases was at the door of England. As to the prevalence of disease, "Between fifty and sixty per cent. of our Indian army," is found to be, in actual fact, only _four and one-half per cent._ (see page 69), and "Thirteen per cent. annually invalided home hopelessly incurable," is found to be, in actual fact, only _one-ninth of one per cent._