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Show 12 APRIL 8, Daily Herald WEDNESDAY, Utah County, Utah 1964 \ ;, Venereal Disease Growth J Brings National Concern, Says County Health Head The current “explosion in venereal disease’’-is of sharp concern’ to public health departments, Dr. Elmo Eddington said today. : Director of the’ City-County Health Department, ‘Dr. Eddington said the national gonorrhea rate rose 18 pér cent | Appeal Made For Bicycle from 1958 to 1962. But Utah’s rate- doubled, increasing from 187 in 1958 to 375 in 1962. During the seven month. period, July 1963, through February, 1964, seven cases of gonor- | rhea were reported within Utah | County, OL em tee hte ay) Nee me : | to 1962. | Utah's record of only nine} -cases state-wide in 1958, drop-| ping to five in 1962, looks good. | But: in. Utah County alone, | Riding Safety * a _.Primary and secondary yer ilis increased more than 200 | per cent nationally from:,1958 | during the past seven months, 21 cases of syphilis have been reported to City-County Health, | Claud Hawkins, Utah County| said Dr. Eddington. I safety director, today warned! These statistics, alarming | motorists to becéme increas-/ enough, tell ‘only part of the ingly aware ofbicyclists on the story, he said. county’s streets and highways _ In a ‘joint statement on “Toas warmer weather brings day’s VD Control Problem,” | more and more bicycles out of) the American Social Health As-| winter . storage. qi sociation, “American Venereal| At the same time Mr. Haw-| Disease Association and Asso- | kins asked cooperation of the| ciation of State and Territorial| county’s bicyclists in observing| Health Officers released a na-|— traffic laws and common sense tional study in which 183,000; rules to enjoy safe and happy physicians in private practice bicycling this summer. .|were queried. According to t he latest. sta- On the basis of their replies, | tistics available, -the safety di-} health authorities now believe | rector said that motor vehicles the total. number of ‘‘treated-| deaths caused by collisions be- but-unreported”” VD cases is tween bicycles and motor ve- mofe than three times greater \§ | hicles numbered , about 500 in| than reported. 1962, considerably less than the | The study disclosed that VD # high of 910 in 1941. ~ | among homosexuals is contrib-| i High Child Rate uting ‘te the exploding national | Mr. Hawkins said that in, VD rate. 1962 almost three-fourths of the | In 1963, 366 cases detected | deaths and four-fifths of 26,000! were of congenital syphilis, in non-fatal injuries were among | children. under one year. children five to 14-years old.! Nationally, 45.6 per cent of} One-tenth of the deaths and in-| reportéd . infectious syphilis juries occurredin the 15 to 25-/ and 55.6 per cent_of reported gonorrhea were in the age & year group. “The number of bicycles in,10 to 24 group. | use in 1962 was 30 million,| The tri-association is urging| that the ‘federal VD control) more than three times t he} number in usé-in 1941,” he| budget of $9.5 million be insaid. “The fact that deaths and creased by $12 million, and! injuries were less numerous is that .research be financed to! encouraging. However, ‘motor) seek an immunizing agent for) | vehicle mileage is continuing | syphilis. . The tri-group also urged that} to increase, thus, making it more difficult to hold the death| research go forward “‘into be-| and injury totals at the 1962) havior sciences that will con- 7 SAFETY CHAMPION NYLON > America’s Favorite Replacement Tire! 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