Social Hygiene, Volume 5

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American Social Hygiene Association, 1919 - Hygiene, Sexual
 

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Page 239 - The initiative was undertaken by an officer appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate, and so it was through the instrumentality of the United States government these women are in limbo.
Page 629 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500, or to undergo imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Page 52 - Records to be secret. All information and reports concerning persons infected with venereal diseases shall be inaccessible to the public except in so far as publicity may attend the performance of the duties imposed by these regulations and by the laws of the state.
Page 495 - Vice-Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Chairman of the Commission ; Prof.
Page 419 - Treasury, (1) to study and investigate the cause, treatment, and prevention of venereal diseases, (2) to cooperate with State Boards or Departments of Health for the prevention and control of such diseases within the States; and (3) to control and prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic...
Page 124 - Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution, or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective. Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly, that, on the scientific side, it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms "abolition," as distinguished from "regulation," is the only effective mode of combatting this age-long evil.
Page 2 - That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed during the present war to do everything by him deemed necessary to suppress and prevent...
Page 407 - Information, a magazine published by the Division of Venereal Diseases of the United States Public Health Service.
Page 51 - ... shall enter or leave the area of quarantine without the permission of the local health officer. No one but the local health officer shall terminate said quarantine, and this shall not be done until the diseased person has become nonlnfectlous, as determined by the local health officer or his authorized deputy through the clinical examination and all necessary laboratory...
Page 543 - Director of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases of the New York City Health Department : "In a period of seven and one-half months terminating December 31.

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