PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES IN RELATION TO VENEREAL DISEASES

Venereal disease and the public health.

The subject on which I have been invited to speak this evening is a wide one and you will, I feel sure, forgive me if my remarks are not as comprehensive as they might be. I will try, however, not to exercise any private hobby horses and to be as generally discursive as I can, though I have always believed that in topics such as this the discussion is usually more valuable than the paper. After...

[The role of public health laboratories in the diagnosis of venereal diseases].

Before entering on the main subject of this paper-the current possibilities of health laboratories in Middle and South America, the basic principles for improving them, and the criteria that should guide us in defining their role in the campaigns against syphilis and gonorrhea-it may not be amiss to make a brief comment on clinical diagnosis. As has been said before, the general practitioner’s ...

Venereal Diseases

Venereal Diseases.

For many years in each of the Canadian provinces, the law has required that any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from a venereal disease shall place himself under the care of a physician, and it has been the duty of that physician to report such cases to the Provincial Department of Health. It was not until 1944, however, that, as the result of a recommendation of the Dominion...

Venereal diseases.