5. Provide $5 million for venereal-disease control in fiscal 1956 to meet the need expressed by 37 States for additional funds and to support necessary emergency activity to check alarming increases in venereal-disease rates which now threaten to wipe out previous gains. ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TErritorial Health Officers, J. W. R. NORTON, President. FRANKLIN D. YNLER, M. D., Secretary. AMERICAN VENEREAL DISEASE ASSOCIATION, WM. L. FLEMING, President. JOHN C. HUME, Secretary. AMERICAN SOCIAL HYGIENE ASSOCIATION, PHILIP R. MATHER, President. CONRAD VAN GURUZ, Executive Director INCREASES IN INFECTIOUS VENEREAL DISEASE CASES REPORTED JULY-DECEMBER 1954 COMPARED WITH JANUARY - JUNE 1954 APPENDIX II (a).—Problems of venereal disease control-Results of questionnaire, 48 States I. (a) Is your appropriation for VD control for the current fiscal year (c) Have you had any recent evidence of local epidemics of early II. Has your State been able to compensate for the current fiscal year 2. Of gonorrhea?. 3. Of other venereal diseases?. (b) Is your present VD case-finding program adequate to insure a IV. Are your diagnostic and treatment facilities adequate to the need?. (b) Do you have any such high prevalence areas within urban areas VI. (a) Are adequate provisions made in your State for the complete and (b) Do military installations and defense plants within your State contribute to any appreciable extent to your VD program?. (c) What percent of the total VD contacts originating within your State are reported by military installations within the State? 2 (d) What percent of contacts reported to your State from sources outside the State are contacts to military personnel? VII. (a) Have you experienced any recent seasonal, other temporary or permanent influx of migratory workers from high prevalence areas who may act to introduce venereal disease into your State?. (b) Does the transmission of VD through migrant laborers contribute any appreciable portion of your DV control problem?.. 1 More recent Health Department reports add 4 States for syphilis rise, 15 States for gonorrhea rise. : APPENDIX II (b).—Problems of venereal disease control-Results of questionnaire, 44 cities, including Washington, D. C. I. (a) Is your appropriation for VD control for the current fiscal year adequate to permit an effective and progressive control program?. (b) If you have any areas in your city where adequate VD control coverage is not now provided, are any of them a potential or actual hazard leading to the transmission of VD into other parts of your city and/or to surrounding areas?. (c) Have you had any recent evidence of local epidemics of early in- II. Has your city been able to compensate for the current fiscal year with 2. of gonorrhea?.. 3. of other venereal diseases?. (b) Is your present VD case-finding program adequate to ensure a con- IV. Are your diagnostic and treatment facilities adequate to the need?. (b) Do military installations and defense plants in or near your city VII. (a) Have you experienced any recent seasonal, other temporary, or permanent influx of migratory workers from high prevalence areas who may act to introduce venereal disease into your city?.. (b) Does the transmission of VD through migrant laborers contribute any appreciable portion of your VD-control problem?... 1 Under 10 percent, 18 cities; 10 to 49 percent, 18 cities. 8 Under 10 percent, 14 cities; 10 to 49 percent, 7 cities; 50 percent and over, 9 cities. |