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...Advertising Council last fortnight withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...
...Question of Health. Nevertheless, the Surgeon General's campaign went on. The War Advertising Council's prepared advertisements may still be used-in local if not national publicity. Declared Surgeon General Parran: "These educational efforts have been increasingly successful. Reversing all previous wartime experience, present infection rates in the United States are at an alltime...
...Water. Because Surgeon General Thomas Parran believes that much of the 60% increase in dysentery can be blamed on food handlers (even typhoid can be caused by dirty dishes), and because the wartime shortage of help has increased the dirty-dish menace, the Public Health Service is advising U.S. cities to provide courses in dishwashing methods. Even with a good dishwashing machine, an "intelligent dishwasher" is needed: e.g., the water in the machine must not get too cold or the dishes will have a higher bacteria count than they had to begin with; if it gets too hot, it will...
Last week Dr. Hilleboe's chief, Surgeon General Thomas Parran, remarked: "It looks as if we are going to be able to lick T.B. as a public health problem...
...spite of Surgeon General Thomas Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...