Word: parran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service announced last week that infantile paralysis, nearing its seasonal peak, is subsiding nationally, the disease has almost reached the epidemic stage in the U.S. The nationwide total since Jan. 1 is 2,753 cases, more than double the figure for the same period last year. Analysis of the half-year situation shows the present total to be higher for the same period than any year since...
...first 2,000,000 draftees examined in 44 States, 4.6% were rejected as syphilitic, 1.5% had gonorrhea. So reported U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week. By the time the Army reaches its 10,000,000-man goal (and if the present rate of infection is not lowered), 610,000 potential soldiers will have been incapacitated...
...civic nostrils of this ex-newspaperwoman widened when recently she began to hear from such friends as U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran about appalling housing and sanitation conditions and increases in venereal disease and delinquency in war-plant areas and military towns. Mrs. Meyer began to sniff printer's ink again...
Charlie Taft's agency proudly noted last week that 350 communities throughout the U.S. had closed their hitherto condoned houses of prostitution. Only a year ago 75% to 90% of venereal disease cases were incurred in such houses. Messrs. Taft and Parran and their committees had also persuaded most better-class hotels to keep a sharper eye on their bellboys' habit of sneaking in "call girls...
...Problem. If Messrs. Taft and Parran had made things difficult for the prostitute, why had the syphilis and gonorrhea rate among soldiers & sailors not decreased faster? Army Medical Corps doctors, who have been constantly tightening prophylactic measures, knew it really was going down, noted that it dropped (on the basis of incomplete averages) to an annual rate of 25 per 1,000 in November, December and January. But they knew, too, that they faced a problem spawned by war: nonprofessional prostitution...