Word: gonorrhea
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Even so, California last week had a great collection of other woes. Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...
...syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week. Significantly they ignored morals, invoked statistics and publicity as their best weapons against the nation's venereal disease problem. As a result of open discussion, members of the American Social Hygiene Association hope that syphilitics and gonorrheics will cease to hide from doctors, will have themselves healed either privately or at free public clinics. Last week 577 communities had 827 such free clinics...
...Syphilis Gonorrhea Total...
...effect these figures indicated that, for the U. S. at large, about twelve people out of every 1,000 are venereally infected-seven with syphilis, five with gonorrhea...
Lida Josephine Usilton of the U. S. Public Health Service, who compiled these figures, believes that there is more venereal disease proportionately in small rural communities than in big cities. She estimates that there are approximately 493,000 individuals constantly under treatment or observation for gonorrhea and 683,000 for syphilis...