TRAILER CARRIES TREATMENT TO SYPHILITICS A 22 by 7 foot auto trailer, constructed for the U.S.P. H.S. in Detroit, was put into operation as a mobile syphilis clinic in Georgia on July 1. The trailer clinic will be a permanent addition to Georgia's full-time Brunswick Health Department unit, which serves the three rural counties, Camden, Glynn, and McIntosh. Headquarters will be in Brunswick. Equipped for both diagnosis and treatment, this mobile unit has three "rooms." Patients will enter at a door about midships. The middle section houses the record files and a registration desk as well as seats for waiting patients. The rear section is designed as a diagnostic and intra-muscular treatment room, containing sterilizer and other necessary equipment. The medical officer in charge will conduct examinations here. Patients will exit through the middle section, but by a second door on the opposite side from the entrance. The front section of the trailer contains an electric ice box, sink and sterilizer. Here intra-veinous treatments will be given by three nurses, and space is provided for all three to work at the same time. Laboratory diagnoses will be done by the State Health Laboratory. The exterior of the trailer is finished in Public Health Service grey, the interior walls in light green. All windows and door panels are of safety glass, and are provided with copper screens. The trailer is constructed with heat insulating material throughout. Six electric fans and Venetian blinds have been installed in anticipation of using the trailer in a hot climate. The towing unit carries its own gas engine driven electric plant. The staff of the traveling syphilis clinic is headed by P.A. Surgeon L. E. Burney, and includes four nurses, three follow-up workers, a laboratory technician, and a records clerk. Two white nurses and one Negro nurse will give treatments. One nurse will head the follow-up staff which includes two women and one man. The project is a part of the Public Health Service campaign for the control of syphilis and is designed as a demonstration of clinic work in rural areas. POSTERS FOR THE SYPHILIS CONTROL CAMPAIGN VENEREAL DISEASE POSTERS, U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE A series of six educational posters on syphilis has been developed by the Public Health Service. These posters are available to all persons interested in the national venereal disease campaign. They may be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. at 75 cents per set of six. A discount of 25 per cent is allowed on orders of 100 sets or more. Re-orders of individual posters in lots of 1,000 or more may be placed; an estimate will be given by the Government Printing Office. Originals of the poster series, as prepared by Mr. Garnet W. Jex, Public Health Service Exhibits Artist, were displayed at the First National Conference on Venereal Disease Control in December 1936, and copies were displayed at the 1937 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City, June 7-11, 1937. The posters are 194x30 inches in size and are reproduced in color on heavy white paper, suitable for display on bulletin boards, or for mounting On the six following pages, appear samples of the Venereal Disease Poster Series. 80% MAY BE CURED DURING FIRST YEAR OF INFECTION Acquired SYPHILIS Proper treatment started during the first year of the disease and continued weekly for eighteen months is almost sure to make recovery certain. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN U. PUBLIC ONLY 30% MAY BE CURED 3-20 YEARS AFTER INFECTION f f f f #2. Venereal Disease Poster Series, P.H.S., price 75 per set of six. 106 PROPER TREATMENT OF Syphilis can be transmitted to the unborn baby Every expectant mother should have a blood test. If found to have syphilis she should begin treatment before the fifth month of pregnancy and continue it until the baby is born. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN #4. Venereal Disease Poster Series, P.H.S., price 75 per set of six. |