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...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...
...Vonderlehr and Heller think that a blood test should be a routine part of every hospital, school, insurance and industrial physical examination. "Naturally," they note, "some people would find themselves receiving a blood test several times a year - and [for] some people this would be a very excellent idea...
...film was made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...
...Assistant Surgeon General, solemn, tight-voiced Raymond Aloysius Vonderlehr, specialist on these diseases, figures that the U. S. has 6,000,000 victims of syphilis, 12,000,000 of gonorrhea. He does not know how many suffer from chancroids. Gonorrhea, he says, afflicts three times as many men, women and children as tuberculosis, four times as many as scarlet fever, 27 times as many as diphtheria, 58 times as many as typhoid, 100 times as many as infantile paralysis...
...Said Dr. Vonderlehr: "Gonorrhea may be said to be the great epidemic disease of the human race, and little is done about...