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Publication No. 13
The Committee for Civilian Co-operation
in Combating Venereal Diseases
Council of National Defense

Washington, D. C.

Estimated Number of Cases

of Syphilis Among Adults

ACCORDING TO STATES

Alabama ......... 39,200 Maine ........... 13,000 Oklahoma ........ 37,000
Arizona .......... 4,300 Maryland ........ 22,900 Oregon .......... 14,000
Arkansas ......... 29,200 Massachusetts ...... 62,500 Pennsylvania ..... 143,200
California ........ 49,400 Michigan ........ 51,300 Rhode Island ..... 10,300
Colorado ........ 16,200 Minnesota ........ 38,300 South Carolina .... 27,300
Connecticut ...... 20,900 Mississippi ........ 32,800 South Dakota ..... 11,700
Delaware ......... 3,600 Missouri ........- 57,300 Tennessee ........ 38,400
District of Columbia. 6,100 Montana ......... 7,700 Texas .......... 74,400
Florida .......... 15,000 Nebraska ......... 21,400 Utah ............ 7,300
Georgia .......... 48,000 Nevada .......... 1,800 Vermont ......... 6,100
Idaho ............ 7,200 New Hampshire ... 7,400 Virginia ......... 36,800
Illinois .......... 103,400 New Jersey ....... 49,500 Washington ....... 25,800
Indiana .......... 47,300 New Mexico ...... 6,900 West Virginia .... 23,300
Iowa ............ 37,300 New York ...... 172,600 Wisconsin ........ 42,000
Kansas .......... 30,700 North Carolina.... 40,400 Wyoming ........ 3,000
Kentucky ........ 40,000 North Dakota .:... 12,400

Louisiana ........ 30,700 Ohio ............ 86,500

In each State there are at least five times
as many adults who have gonorrhea.

Wherever prostitution flourishes, men convey these diseases into
the home with consequent infection of women and children. Each
person infected with either syphilis or gonorrhea, is, at the be-
ginning of the disease, a menace to other persons. Some persons
remain in an infectious condition all their lives

Are Women and Children Safe in Your State?

Eight States have undertaken vigorous campaigns against
the venereal menace. Is your State one of the eight?

Comparisons between the States should not be drawn, because, in the lack of exact figures, the
estimates above are based on the assumption that the proportion of cases of syphilis to the adult popula-
tion is the same in each state.

 

The above figures are based on the estimate of population of the United States, Bulletin 133 of the Bureau of the Census,
p. 15. The adult population is estimated to be 56% of the total.

The estimate of the prevalence of syphilis is based on the conservative statement of Dr..W. A. Pusey, of the Surgeon Gen-
eral’s Committee on Venereal Disease, to the effect that * ‘more than 3% of the entire ain population are syphilitic’’ (exactly
3G¢ is used here). See “Syphilis, a Modern Problem,” by William A. Pusey, M.D., p. 106.