Open AccessINDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF ARMY AND NAVY VENEREAL DISEASE RECORDS
Author(s) -
Ray H. Everett,
Mike Clark
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.9.829
Subject(s) - navy , military personnel , medicine , environmental health , law , political science
Venereal diseases are a much greater handicap in industry than existing industrial statistics indicate. This inference may properly be drawn from the 1920 reports of absences from duty in Army and Navy. In the former more than 13% and in the latter 15% of all absences were from venereal diseases.