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...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...
...Program. In 1941 several U.S. agencies, including Dr. Thomas Parran's Public Health Service and Charles P. Taft's Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services, joined in a program to cut down the rate of venereal disease. Though all early venereal figures are suspect, the rate of infections per 1,000 men in the Army in 1917 was given at 107; in 1861 at 184. Last year it was 37.8, higher than it had been...
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...
Among the speakers at the dedication were U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, venereal disease enemy No. 1, and Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, who will head the hospital until a permanent director is chosen. Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the Ninth Naval District and Major General Henry S. Aurand, commanding officer of the Sixth Service Command, were on hand to congratulate the city on its "positive stand" on venereal disease-the center is expected to reduce the dangers of infection among service men in the Chicago district...