Show Social Hygiene V Week February y 1st Renewed activity In Utah's campaign campaign cam cam- against syphilis and rhea was WM teen feen today In an announcement announcement an an- by Dr Welby W W. Director of the of Venereal Disease Control of the Utah State Board noard of Health that Social Hygiene Week would again be observed in this State on Feb Principal object of the 1940 observance observance ob ob- ob servance Dr Bigelow said Ls is to I acquaint the public pubic with the problems lems Ims of medical quackery and self- self treatment in relation to these diseases diseases dis dis- eases cas and to extend public understanding understanding under under- standing of their menace to individual dual and public health Dr Bigelow stated that despite educational efforts of his organization ration and others many persons still I do not appreciate that only a com com- physician can properly diagnose diagnose diagnose nose and treat syphilis and gonor rhea The result he pointed out is that many uninformed men and women are victimized every day by medical quacks unscrupulous vendors of worthless ss remedies and home nostrums and some unethical unethical cal druggists who prescribe for these serious diseases without being properly properly pro pro- perly qualified to do soBy soBy soBy so By meetings motion pictures and other means Fourth Social Hy Hy- gine Week in this State will seek to many of the truths half concerning syphilis and gonorrhea and once again focus public attention attention atten atten- tion upon their perpetual threat to young men and women our families families lies and our chi dren he said National Social Hygiene Day is Leing observed in every state and I more than five thousand communities ties on February 1 1 and is Ls being sponsored by the American Social Hygiene Hygene Association In cooperation I with state and local health departments departments depart depart- ments social hygiene societies and 1 other organizations Our record of ca cases s Dr Bigelow Bige- Bige low stated shows we have less I ca clUes cases es of venereal diseases than most other states With our present facilities we should soon lead all states We are therefore observing a full week as Social Hygiene Week to allow time for al organizations to hold meetings to clarify th the methods m of preventing treating and obliterating these diseases diseasE'S from this State |