PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE AND TREND OF SYPHILIS IN CHICAGO: IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1937

Autor: USILTON, LIDA J., HUNTER, HOWARD, VONDERLEHR, R. A.
Zdroj: JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; March 1938, Vol. 110 Issue: 12 p864-869, 6p
Abstrakt: The health authorities of the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago requested the United States Public Health Service to cooperate with the Works Progress Administration to determine the number of persons with syphilis actually under observation and treatment by all authorized medical sources of treatment in Chicago.Every clinic cooperated in the survey. Private physicians furnished nonidentifying information about the patients with syphilis under their care. Of the 5,652 physicians in active practice in Chicago, 99.6 per cent cooperated in this undertaking.The survey period selected was from March 1 to June 30, 1937. Every case record was included provided the patient had been in a clinic, hospital or institution or under the care of a private physician for treatment or observation for syphilis during the survey period, regardless of the time he first sought treatment for the infection. There were 19,000 records studied.The survey has established:
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