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THE United States Public Health Service reports that treatment and laboratory facilities and services in the control of venereal disease increased between 30 and 85 per cent during the last fiscal year ending June 30, 1939. Every State Department now has a separate division or sub-division for the control of venereal disease. Approximately 103,000 persons were discharged from clinics as cured or the disease arrested in 1939, as compared with 78,000 in the previous year. Persons treated for the first time numbered 305,000 and the number of treatments administered was 8,000,000. Training centres for physicians and nurses in venereal disease control have been established in nine universities.
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Venereal Disease in the United States. Nature 145, 854 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145854a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145854a0