Venereal diseases, in the United States, statistics of, 32; reason for frequency of, 33; gonorrhea and syphilis, 33-39, 100, 146, 199; as affecting children, 34; infection of innocent persons, 39-41; possibility of recovery from, 41. Venereal infection, prevalence of, 15, 32; fear of, not sufficient motive in promoting chastity, 15; effects of, 32-44; in men, 32, 33; in women, 34; in children, 34, 35; of innocent persons, 39-41. _See_ Venereal diseases. Vice commissions, 52-61. Vice in adolescents, 131-34. Vice investigations, 51-61. Virility, importance of, to be taught, 142-49. Vocational training, 16. Wage-earners, women as, increase of numbers, 46. _See_ Women. Wages and vice, 16, 17, 50-62. Wagner, Charles, quoted, 135, 136, 138. Wasserman, his test of the syphilis microbe, 38. "Weaker sex, the," the phrase has lost some of its significance, 49, 50. Welfare work, 68, 69. Woman's Auxiliary Department of the Police, 58. Women, infection in, 34; as wage-earners, increase of numbers, 46; drift of, from domestic service, 47; lack of industrial education for, 48; loss due to emergence from seclusion, 49; the phrase "the weaker sex" has lost some of its significance, 49, 50; connection of wages and immorality among, 51-62; bearing of industrial stress on morals of, 62-64; dangers to, in seeking employment, 64; summing up of their economic condition, 65, 66. Zooelogy, 93.