Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free Tests Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 15, under the heading "Great Pox," Nevada, together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
That is precisely the goal of the health officers of the nation led by Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, and prodded by Dr. William Freeman Snow, general director of the American Social Hygiene Association. They want victims of syphilis (especially) and gonorrhea to cease being furtive about their afflictions and to get treatment. In line with that program every case of those diseases must be registered precisely as though it were a case of typhoid fever. And, as with typhoid fever, health officers must track down the men & women disseminating gonorrhea...
Said Dr. Wilbur: "When every American family sees that the children in each generation are taught the truth about syphilis and gonorrhea, how to avoid them and what to do if infected, we shall no longer see our young manhood and womanhood their chief victims.'' Said Dr. Parran: "There must be secured through the medical and other professional groups additional experienced personnel to provide for the necessary diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of all infected persons...
...number of longtime permanent residents-real Arizonans-do have tuberculosis and die from it. ... The foregoing probably constitute the most important, and with one possible exception, but by no means all, public health problems in Arizona. That exception is the control of venereal diseases, or more specifically, syphilis and gonorrhea...
...provision of treatment. [About 1,000 free, pay and part-pay clinics exist in the U. S., one clinic for every 130,000 inhabitants.] "7) The adoption of reasonable standards of efficiency by State health departments before formal recognition is given to clinics for the treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea...