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Germs
"A man who would…
Tags: germ, gonorrhea, kiss, microscopic view, syphilis
"For A Happy Married Life"
"Love is essential, and mutual respect, common interests, and unselfish consideration are the foundations of love :…
"Fitness of Body and Mind"
Tags: photograph, sports
"Conventions Which Protect"
Tags: photograph, traveler's aid, woman
"Conventions Which Bring Freedom"
"Decent good times lead to more good times because they promote permanent friendships :…
Tags: home, man, photograph, woman
"Blinded by Gonorrhea"
"If the mother has gonorrhea, her child may be blinded at birth :…
"A Syphilitic Baby"
"Every child has a right to be well-born : If the father or the mother has syphilis, the child may be born or defective"
Herald of Social Hygiene (Health Helps Comic Strip)
Herald of Social Hygiene (Detail--Bad Business Infographic)
Tags: arm, blood test, court, education, employee, employer, industry, infographic, lock, overalls, pictorial statistic, prostitution, quack, recreation, sports
"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Clinic)
Tags: clinic, patient, photograph, physician
"Still at the Top of the Sick List"
"Though the Army's venereal disease rate rose in 1940 and '41, this trend was checked in 1942 and the…
Tags: hospital bed, incidence, line graph, prevalence, VD ward
"Until 1917 Venereal Diseases Always Increased Alarmingly during Mobilization"
"By 1910 American military and civil organizations had begun to take steps to reduce these diseases. DUring the World War the Army, Navy, Public Health Service, medical…
Tags: line graph, military, statistic, war
"First 2,000,000 Selectees Blood Tested for Syphilis"
This poster shows the rate of infection for each state. These statistics are based on the results of the blood tests given to men during their Selective Service examinations.
Tags: map, military, prevalence, selective service, syphilis
"Community Groups Cooperate to Form Industrial Health Committee"
Tags: community, education, health, industry, infographic, pictorial statistic
"Diseases of Youth, Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
This poster compares the prevalence of primary syphilis among different age groups of men and women. The text and the bar graph indicate that young people have the highest rates.
Tags: bar graph, gonorrhea, infographic, pictorial statistic, prevalence, statistic, syphilis, youth
"Our Family Are Having Their Blood Tests Like Thousands of Others"
Tags: African American, blood test, children, family, father, man, mother, photograph, physician, syphilis, test tube, tourniquet, woman
"Syphilis Can Be Cured"
Tags: blood test, cure, physician, syphilis, treatment
"Parents Are the Child's First and Best Social Hygiene Teachers!"
"If your child asks a question regarding sex, answer it simply, naturally, and in your own…
"How Syphilis Spreads Through Prostitution"
This is an epidemiological chart that shows how one syphilis epidemic spread. This image was created earlier in the 1930s. Here it appears with a new heading.
Tags: children, congenital syphilis, contacts, family, man, prostitute, prostitution, rural, sex, south, syphilis, wife, woman
"Smash the Prostitution Racket"
This poster informs viewers that commercial prostitution spreads syphilis and gonorrhea. It promotes the eradication of the system.
Tags: fist, prostitution
"Syphilis is Bad Business"
"1. Health every employee get a blood test, especially accident and chronic sickness cases. 2. Keep examination results condiential between doctor,…
Tags: blood test, court, DOH, employee, gonorrhea, infographic, physician, pictorial statistic, sports, syphilis, syringe
"Beyond Victory"
Tags: community, health, history, home, nike, NSHD, promiscuity, prostitution, victory
"He's Doing His Job...Let's Do Ours!"
This poster ties social hygiene efforts to those of servicemen. It is also promoting National Social Hygiene Day.
Tags: family, NSHD, serviceman, social hygiene, VD, vice, youth
"From Time Immemorial Venereal Disease Rates Have Risen Alarmingly During Wars"
This poster explains that venereal disease rates increase during war time. A…
Tags: history, incidence, line graph, prevalence, serviceman, war
"Don't be HER pin-up boy."
Tags: pilot, sailor, serviceman, soldier, woman
"Outbreak of Gonorrhea among Pupils of a Public Elementary School"
Tags: children, contacts, family, father, homosexual, mother, prostitute, school
"Outbreak of Syphilis in a Rural County, Monroe County, Tennessee"
Tags: children, congenital syphilis, contacts, family, prostitute, rural, sex, south, wife
"Investigation of a Localized Outbreak of Syphilis in New York City"
Tags: congenital syphilis, contacts, family, homosexual, prostitute, sex
"The A-B-C of Syphilis"
This pamphlet includes short entires about syphilis in alphabetical order. It was included in National Social Hygiene Day Program Kits.
Tags: blind, blood test, casual contact, children, clinic, cup, death, efficiency, family, gonorrhea, health, heart disease, home, husband, kiss, law, marriage, mental illness, microscope, microscopic view, NSHD, parent, pregnancy, premarital exam, promiscuity, prophylaxis, prostitute, quack, sex, snake, spirochete, sports, syphilis, treatment, Wasserman, wife, youth
"Wassermann in Newborn Babies in Relation to Treatment of Mother during Pregnancy"
"Syphilis and the Unborn"
"Syphilis the Enemy of Youth"
This infographic breaks down the percentage of new cases of syphilis each year by age. Most who acquire the disease do so between the ages of 15 and 30.
Tags: age, enemy, incidence, infographic, pictorial statistic, syphilis, youth
"Importance of the Blood Test as Part of the Patient Examination"
This chart…