Word: vonderlehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...direct charge is Assistant Surgeon General Raymond Aloysius Vonderlehr, 39, a determined administrator. Speaking in a tight-voiced monotone, Dr. Vonderlehr last week advised the 6.000.000 victims of syphilis, the 12,000,000 victims of gonorrhea and the unestimated victims of soft chancre (caused by Streptobacillus ulceris mollis) in the U. S.* that they may reasonably expect the following means of relief during 1937: "1) The appointment of a full-time venereal disease control officer in every State department of health...