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EDITORIAL
Syphilis and Maternal Health
In the many-sided movement
for child health and protection
carried on during the last twenty
five years, the public has learned
the importance of pre-natal care.
Guided by the family physician
-or advised by official or volun
tary health organizations, many
expectant mothers are careful
ly following regimens of diet, ex
ercise and behavior to build and
protect the health of the life they
carry.
Yet thousands up on thousands
of prospective mothers do not
know that unless they have a
blood test during their early
months of pregnancy, an unseen
and unsuspected tragedy may be
menacing their unborn children.
This tragedy is congenital syph
ilia—syphilis contracted before
birth—transmitted to the child
in the mother’s womb. Each
year 60,000 babies in the United
States are born with syphilis.
Thousands die within a few
weeks of birth; those who sur
vive infancy may suffer from
any of the consequences of syph
ilis including blindness, insanity
and serious deformities.
Congenital syphilis is definite
ly and almost wholly prevent
able, and can be wiped out in!
one generation if every prospect- *
ive mother will cooperate. This j
cooperation requires that every'
woman have a blood test early1
in pregnancy. No expectant mo- j
ther should let false shame deter j
her from this test, for anyone j
may have syphilis unknowingly. j
Syphilis recognizes no social or |
economic class; of the millions!
now suffering from some form of
the disease, probably at least,
half were infected through no
fault of their own—men and wo
men infected in marriage, per
sons accidentally infected, and1
especially children congenitally:
infected. Congenital syphilis,!
however would soon cease to ex
ist if all mothers will do their
“'part.
A simple blood test —examin
ation of specimens of the moth-!
er's blood, which should always!
"be included in the examination :
only that she is “run down” ane
mic. It may show however, that!
of a pregnant woman—may show
in her blood are the insidious ef
fects of a syphilis infection which
if she is not properly treated,
threatens the health & may cost
the life of her child. If proper
treatment of the mother is be
gun before the middle of preg
nancy and continued until de-j
livery, a mother with syphilis!
can almost always bear a heal
i thy non-syphilitic baby. Treat
| ment also appreciably enhance;
the resultant cure of the mother
Every woman, the moment she
| suspects pregnancy, should af
once consult her private physic
ian for early and periodic rout
ine examinations throughout
j pregnancy and necessary blood
tests. Physicians at time may
! hesitate to make a blood test ir
private pregnancy cases for feai
! of offending their patients, bul
1 what expectant mother realizing
its importance, would refuse eith
er test or treatment to make sure
her child would be born free ol
disease? What mother would not
demand it? When every prospect
ive mother is given a blood test
early in pregnancy and when all
I such mothers who have syphilis
are treated early and adequately,
congenital syphilis will be wiped
out.
In many states legislation is be
ing proposed to make the blood
test in marriage and in pregnan
cy routine requirements. This
will finally and effectively re
duce syphilis among the new
born to the vanishing point.
RADIO PHONE RATES
TO SEATTLE REDUCED
Colonel Clyde L. Eastman, ex
ecutive of the Signal Corps an
nounces that effective November
15, the day rate for radio tele
phone service between Seattle
and Juneau was reduced 33 and
one-third percent and the night
and Sunday rate for the same
service was reduced 25 percent.
At the same time the rates for
broadcast program service were
reduced 33 and one-third per
cent and the setting up charge
formerly applicable to two-way
program transmission was discon
tinued.
It is expected that the new
Seattle-Ketchikan radio tele
phone channel will be opened to
the public on or about December
15. The rates applicable to the
service between Seattle and
Ketchikan will be the same as
the revised rates between Seat
tle and Juneau.
MOUNTAIN FOUND IN
GULF OF ALASKA
WASHINGTON — Don’t look!
now, but there’s a 9,500-foot
miuntain a>t the bottom of the
Gulf of Alaska, 200 miles south
of Kodiak Island.
The coast and geodetic survey
announced the discovery, but
said that mariners should not
worry to much about it.
There still are 4,700 feet of
water iver the top of the moun
tain.
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GOP DEWEY
LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 11 (JP) —
Thomas Dewey launched his
campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination with an ;
attack on what he termed New
Deal defeatism.
In effect, he told 9000 cheer- ]
ing people who criwded Municip ‘
al Auditorium that the New |
Deal’s philosophy is: “There is
nothing left to do; all that re
mains is to devide what we got
from the Indians.”
Dewey charged that “govern
ment hostility, repressive taxa
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tion and economic quackery j
have kept the energy of Ameri-'
can enterprise, great and small i
from going to work.
Doctor—This is a very sad case i
very sad indeed. I much regret j
to tell you that your wife’s mind I
is gone—completely gone.
Mr. Pack—I’m not at all sur
prised doctor. She’s been giving
me a piece of it every day for
fifteen years.
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for you.
SALLIES INTO SALESMANS HI P~_h0w to sell
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to right: Sandra Barrett of Marion, Ind.: Libby Bennett of Char
| lotte, N. C.: Key Taylor of San Antonio, Tex. Stone, who is chair
man of the actors’ sales division, is from New Bedford, Mass.
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