Publication No. 13
The Committee for Civilian Co-operation
  in Combating Venereal Diseases
    Council of National Defense
      Washington, D. C.

Estimated Number of Cases
of Syphilis Among Adults

ACCORDING TO STATES

Alabama  .........  39,200
Arizona  ..........  4,300
Arkansas  .........  29,200
California  ........  49,400
Colorado  ........ I 6,200
Connecticut  ......  20,900
Delaware .........  3,600
District of Columbia. 6,100
Florida  ..........  I 5,000
Georgia  .......... 48,000
Idaho  ............  7,200
Illinois  ..........  103,4C'(J
Indiana  ..........  47,300
Iowa  ............  37,300
Kansas  ..........  30,700
Kentucky  ........  40,000
Louisiana  ........  30,700

Maine . . . . . . . . . . . 13,000
Maryland . . . . . . . . 22,900
Massachusetts . .: . . . 62,500
Michigan  . . . . . . . . 5 I ,300
Minnesota . . . . . . . . 38,300
Mississippi . . . . . . . . 32,800
Missouri . . . . . . . . . 57,300
Montana . . . . . . . . .  7,700
Nebraska . . . . . . . . . 2 I ,400
Nevada . . . . . . . . . .  I ,800
New Hampshire . . .  7,400
New Jersey . . . . . . . 49,500
New Mexico . . . . . . 6,900
Sew York . . . . . . 172,600
North Carolina. . . . 40,400
North Dakota . : . . . 12,400
Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . 86,500

In each State there are.at least five times
as many adults who have gonorrhea.

Oklahoma . . . . . . . . 37,000
Oregon . . . . . . . . . . 14,000
Pennsylvania . . . . . 143,200
Rhode Island . . . . . 10,300
South Carolina . . . . 27,300
South Dakota . . . . . I 1,700
Tennessee . . . . . . . . 38,400
Texas         * 74,400
Utah . : : : : : : : : : : .  7,300
Vermont . . . . . . . . .  6,100
Virginia . . . . . . . . . 36,800
Washington . . . . . . . 25,800
West Virginia . . . . 23,300
Wisconsin . . . . . . . . 42,000
Wyoming . . . . . . . .  3,ooo

Wherever prostitution flourishes, men convey these diseases into
the home with consequent infection of women and children. Each
person infected with either syphilis or gonorrhea, is, at the be-
ginning qf the disease, a menace to other persons. Some persons
remain in an infectious condition all their lives

Are Women and Children Safe in Your State?

Eight States have undertaken vigorous campaigns against
the venereal menace.  Is your State one of the eight?

  Comparisons between the States chould not hc drawn, because, in the lack of exact figures, the
estimates above are based on the assumption that the proportion of cases of syphilis to the adult popula-
tion is the same in each state.

  The above figures are based an the estimate of population of the United States, Bulletin 133 of the Bureau of the Census,
p. 15. The adult population is estimated to be 56% of the total.
  The estimate of the wevalence of smhilis is based on the conservative statement of Dr:W. A. Pusev. of the Surceon Gen-

eral's Committee on Ven&eal Disease, tks- the effect that
35; is used here!. See "Syphi!is, a -Modern Problem,"  "more than 3% of the entire adult population a&z syphilitic'~~(exactly
                              by William -4. Pusey, M.D., p. 106.