Medicine: On Dolorosa Street

Every afternoon shortly after 1, a crowd of sleepy-eyed "town girls," "call girls," "party girls," juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named...

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