Open AccessPROSTITUTION AND COMMUNITY SYPHILIS
Author(s) -
Herman Goodman
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.7.515
Subject(s) - syphilis , quarter (canadian coin) , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , demography , family medicine , gerontology , environmental health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , geography , sociology , archaeology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
In Porto Rico, where half the older Spanish soldiers and one-quarter of an American army of occupation had venereal infection, isolation and care of prostitutes reduced the increase to only four new army cases in six months among twelve thousand men. This shows the possibilities of prevention.