Syphilis in the military community.

The primary source of data is the notifiable diseases forms raised when an individual is treated as a case of syphilis as required by law. Data for a 5-year period, 1974 to 1978 are used for this study. A special return on antenatal screening for syphilis for the same period was obtained from military medical establishments though not all units submitted them and even these were not complete for all the years. This was also used for this study.