"Our power is being sapped--our race defiled--and we are forced to ask ourselves if no means can be devised of stopping so gigantic an infliction." What does this mean in exact figures? How "gigantic" in reality is this infliction? The official figures of the very document which was meant to originate the alarm, the Report of the Departmental Committee of 1897 shall testify. The latest year reported in this document is 1895, and as the law which effectually forbade the compulsory examination of women was passed on February 8, 1895, the figures show the result only of _less than eleven months_ covering the existence of that law. Out of a force of 71,031 soldiers in India nineteen more men were sent home to England, "hopelessly incurable" from vice, in 1895 than in the year 1894. _Nineteen cases_ represent the size of this "gigantic infliction" which has been made the occasion of raising such a cry of alarm, and a demand for the return to licensed prostitution and the re-enslavement of thousands of native women by compulsory examination measures. In the year 1894, 111 men were sent home invalided from this cause, and in 1895, 130 men were sent home--an increase of nineteen cases. We do not wish to minimize the evil of even these few cases; but is a decent nation prepared to hazard an attempt to purchase immunity from disease by plunging into brazen defiance of God's seventh commandment? What about the "gigantic [immoral] infliction" of the atheistic assumption that chastity is a sanitary failure, and fornication a necessity? There is no comparison between the "gigantic infliction" upon England of a teaching to defy God's commandments in the fancied interests of physical health, and the presence of nineteen additional diseased soldiers in a population of thirty-five millions.