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...president and an old disease awaited the American Public Health Association in New Orleans this week when that ancient and honorable organization convened for its 65th annual meeting. The new president is Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. The old disease is syphilis. The conjunction of these two was of large medical importance because Surgeon General Parran is now well launched on a nationwide campaign to bring this venereal disease out into the open and under control. Today, though exact figures are lamentably lacking, it is expertly estimated that one U. S. citizen...
...silence or ignorance while Society took the moral view that they had simply got what was coming to them. To break down this taboo in the U. S. and tackle syphilis scientifically rather than morally is the high and burning purpose in the official life of Surgeon General Parran...
...Copenhagen a sight in the main square made Dr. Parran pause with admiration, for "along with advertisements of department stores, model houses, parks and other attractions of the city was posted the list of names, places and hours of all venereal disease clinics." In Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other...
...York City's Health Commissioner John Levi Rice, who does more than any other municipal health officer to support the Parran campaign, last week revealed another new method in the U. S. fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops...
...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...