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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...
Around him he rallied those whom he calls upon in all major" catastrophes: his Reliever-in-Chief, Harry Hopkins, his Commander of Public Health, Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., his mover of battalions, Chief of Staff Malin Craig, the Army's ranking engineer, Major General Edward Murphy Markham, the chairman cf the American Red Cross. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and many another. Together they mapped and planned how to care for a million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from...
...much more liberal allotment of funds for direct expenditures in the control of the venereal diseases." Under Josephine Roche, sociologically-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who opened last week's Conference, Dr. Parran has $10,000,000 to carry out the 1937 campaign. Brimming with zest, the conferees last week urged Dr. Parran to ask Congress for another...
...trend in venereal disease away from intercourse between the sexes, and towards sodomy and pederasty." No President had ever said or written so frankly as Franklin Roosevelt, and he might not have done so if he had not been egged on by his longtime friend and subordinate, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. When Dr. Parran became Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service last year he declared that he intended to treat syphilis and gonorrhea like other pandemic diseases (notably tuberculosis) and fight them in the open (TIME, Oct. 19 et ante...
...service of Dr. Parran in proving to 123,000,000 citizens of the U. S. that about 12,000,000 of them are gonorrheics, about 6,000,000 syphilitics and that they had all better do something about it promptly, was indeed a Service of the Year...