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eases> when transmitted to a wife by her 

 husband, it renders her sterile. Most ab- 

 dominal operations performed on married 

 women are due to the disease having been 

 contracted from afflicted husbands. The 

 operation, as a rule, leaves the patient 

 sterile. How few women know it or what 

 caused it! One of New York's leading spe- 

 cialists in the social diseases has just stated 

 to me that 60% of the men you meet on our 

 streets are affected directly or by inheri- 

 tance by the social diseases and that 80% 

 of the abdominal operations on women are 

 caused by contact with their affected hus- 

 bands. 



Before me is a statement, for the year 

 ending 1915, of Dr. Nevitt, who was for 

 nine years head of the Kentucky State In- 

 stitutions for the Insane. It appears that 

 there were in Kentucky in public institu- 

 tions for defectives, the following: 



4500 Insane and deaf in public institu- 

 tions. 



400 Insane and deaf in registered insti- 

 tutions. 



600 Blind in public institutions. 



