• Vaugirard Hospital
  • Marked the first attempt by a government to deal with syphilis as a demographic and medical problem, rather than moral or religious.
  • Closed in 1790
  • Conclusions of a review committee:
    • 371 lives saved at a cost of 500,000 livres
    • "Of those, one-half to two-thirds would not reach an age to be of service to society".
    • "Judging from the immoral and debased output from our hospices today, the type of life saved was not worth the expense."

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