Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General in charge of venereal disease control. As New York State's Commissioner of Health (salary $12,000), Dr. Parran began to spend $15,000 to $20,000 a year for prophylactic stations, clinics, moving pictures, lectures and pamphlets to teach New Yorkers the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhea, and to cure as many of those infected as could be induced to apply for treatment. Commissioner Parran wrote and lectured on the subject whenever he had the opportunity. Such an opportunity was presented to him last week in the form of 15 minutes broadcasting time scheduled over 60 stations...
...make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers had the Common Council pass an ordinance which went into effect this week. Like a similar ordinance of Newark (only other of its kind which Englewood knows of), it requires that every domestic servant in Englewood possess a certificate of health. Said Englewood...
...cent to 17% of all marriages are sterile, and 40% to 50% of sterile marriages are due to gonorrhea in husband or wife, usually both...
Many a Warbook author has told of self-inflicted wounds, apparently a common method in all armies of getting a respite from the front, but Author Frey tells of soldiers deliberately infecting themselves with gonorrhea, of painfully faking symptoms of syphilis. "Information as to the best practise spreads from hospitals to the troops in the line...