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JAMA. 1969;207(1):21-36.

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National Survey Indicates

Lack Of Reporting Masks VD Climb

Nearly one third of all physicians and osteopaths in private practice treated at least one new case of venereal disease in three months of 1968. Only a few of these cases were reported to public health authorities.

Results of the 1968 National Survey of VD Incidence also suggest that the number of new VD cases in fiscal 1968 was around 1,700,000 rather than the offical figure of 530,000.

Private practitioners treated 1,343,441 cases in the fiscal year, but they reported only 176,284—not quite one out of every eight.

Most of the new cases were gonorrhea, which public health officials say is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States. Attempts to curb the spread of the disease are hampered by lack of information and the reticence of physicians who presumably want to spare their patients the embarrassment of public health investigations. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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