PROGRESS OF VENEREAL DISEASE CONTROL

The control of venereal disease.

The recent dramatic increase in the transmission of venereal disease is not an isolated social phenomenon but is one manifestation of the alteration in the behaviour of society during the last decade (Guthe and Willcox, 1971). Behaviour patterns vary in different social and ethnic groups and are greatly altered by environmental pressures. Any consideration of the difficulties associated with lo...

Advances in Venereal Disease Control

Every community, every State, and every Nation has its individual venereal disease control problem, yet these separate problems blend into a single, unified world problem of epidcmiolo,T in this day of extensive and rapid travel when no community ís truly isolated from any other. The internatioral character of venereal disease control has already been established in practice as well as recognia...

Recent progress in venereal disease. Serology of syphilis.

The Epidemiological Control of Venereal Disease.

In 1943 I was given the interesting but difficult task ofconducting the Joint Committee on Venereal Disease, on which were represented the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry, Ministry of Health, the Department of Health for Scotland, the Home Office, the Metropolitan Police, and the Canadian and United States Armies. I will refer later to the work of this Committee, which was confronted with a...

Problems of venereal disease control in Poland.

As in many other countries, a considerable increase in venereal disease was observed in Poland after the second world war. Poland was twice the scene of war and also had five years of German military occupation; she suffered particularly from all the deplorable effects of war, and the health of her population was badly affected. Syphilis and gonorrhoea morbidity attained a high level never befo...