Gonorrhea flourishes in cities. It flourishes particularly in Washington, D.C.; only three* U.S. cities have more. Since 1941 the number of reported cases in Washington has jumped nearly 600%.
Last week the District of Columbia Health Department went on the air to do something about it, broadcast over radio station WTTOP an interview recorded in a venereal disease clinic. A woman's voice quavered a bit as she answered the intimate questions. Had she ever thought about gonorrhea? "No, I had not thought about the disease very much, only in the way that one thinks about leprosy." It turned out that the...
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