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...Thomas Parran, able Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service for the past twelve years, once called his job "the most important public health position in the world, present or prospective." More than any other one man, Dr. Parran was responsible for breaking the taboo against using the words syphilis and gonorrhea in public (TIME, Oct. 26, 1936). By research and by blunt publicity campaigns, he led an anti-VD fight that has brought both syphilis and gonorrhea under more effective control...
...winners, announced last week: Dr. Thomas Parran, 55, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (a special award of $2,500); for "outstanding contributions to the national health" (notably his campaign against venereal disease), and for leadership in establishing U.N.'s World Health Organization...
...strength of the hopeful new treatments, the newly created National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states where leprosy is endemic; 2) segregation only as a last resort (in contagious stages); 3) pleasanter surroundings and more freedom for Carville's lepers, including a month's vacation every six months...
...Surgeon General Parran revealed that more than half of all the hospital beds in the U.S. are now occupied by patients with...
...years Surgeon General Thomas Parran had waged war to the death against venereal disease. How was the fight going? In a campaign report last week, his lieutenants candidly answered: "We must admit frankly that progress has not been too satisfactory." Authors of this cards-on-the-table report (The Control of Venereal Disease, Reynal & Hitchcock, $2.75): Dr. Raymond A. Vonderlehr and Dr. John R. Heller, past and present chiefs of the U.S. Public Health Service's VD division. Actually the vigorous U.S. campaign, despite defeats, has been far from a failure...