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Show Several Colleges Join War to Check Syphilis Stimulated by the national campaign cam-paign to control venereal disease, a few colleges and universities are making syphilis tests a part of the routine examinations required of incoming in-coming students. Judging from a survey made by the Chicago Tribune, Trib-une, serological diagnosis for syphilis syph-ilis is not a common regulation among student health services, however. how-ever. Instruction on the sexual and social so-cial hazards of the disease is far more common. Many universities, in fact, require their freshman men and women to take courses in health or hygiene revealing the character of the disease. Others confine this instruction to medical and sociological socio-logical courses beyond the reach of most students. University presidents, deans, and health directors questioned were unanimous in declaring that syphilis syph-ilis does not constitute a major health problem on American campuses. cam-puses. Most of them agreed that students found to have syphilis and gonorrhea gonor-rhea should be kept in school where they could have adequate treatment. treat-ment. Prep school leaders, dealing with younger boys, were just as certain cer-tain that all syphilitics should be barred. The University of Chicago, University Uni-versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth college col-lege are schools which have elected to give Wasserman or Kahn tests to all newcomers. New York university univer-sity offers free tests to all students, but does not require them. Testing began on the Midway with the winter quarter this month, taking tak-ing advantage of the Chicago board of health's program of frea and secret examinations, since the university uni-versity health service lacked funds for this purpose. Dartmouth college began routine Wassermans last fall and found one case of congenital syphilis among 650 incoming students. The University of Iowa started serological testing of freshmen in 1924 and continued until 1930, reported re-ported Dr. M. E. Barnes, head of the department of hygiene. It ceased, he said, because of many objections. The university then confined con-fined its testing to food handlers, employees and others. |