The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-13

! til forty or more are in operation in
Florida. This means that within the
reach of every INDECENT patient there
Will be available free clinical treat
.nent by competent physicians for So
cial diseases. a clinic will be estab-
lished in nearly every county seat in
the state. Medical treatment will be
provided absolutely without cost to
I the individual INDECENT patient. Vic
TINS Of these diseases who are able to
pay for treatment will be directed to
competent physicians.
The State Board of Health. fully
aware of the tremendous economic i'm
portance of these clinics, has set aside
"a liberal appropriation from their
available funds for the carrying out OF
this program of expansion.
Clinics Now Operating.
Free clinics are now in operation by
the State Board of Health at the fol-
lowing places: Arcadia, DeIray. Miami.
Sanford, Hosford, Fort Pierce, Jack
sOnville, Pensacola, Wauchula, Tampa.
Key NNest. Lake City, River Junction
and West Palm Beach. There is also
in operation an ambulatOry clinic
which covers a wide territory in ru-
raj and industrial sections and which
during the last year treated thousands
OF cases.
Cooperating Agencies.
Agencies and federal bureaus COOP |
Grating with the State Board of Health |
in this campaign include the United |
States Public Health Service. repre-
scented by Captain w. II. Gillette and
other workers; the United States in |
terdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, |
represented by Mr.. Hannibal L. Ham /
lin, supervising field agent, and Miss
Bess MOrhOus, in charge of wOmen's
work, and others, and the American
Social Hygiene Association which IS
sending a fully equipped field car for
use in rural and industrial communi-
ties. DR.. William Bierman, lecturer.
is also being sent into this campaign |
by this association. The educational
will be a $4,000 effort
mainly financed by the outside Coop
Grating agencies and bureaus. As a
matter of fact, the expense to the state
for the entire educational program will Il
be only $500, according to DR.. Greene
State Health officer.
Doctor George A. Dame, director in
charge Of all social hygiene work of
the State Board of Health, will direct
all phases of the program Tor the Grad
cation Of social diseases 4hroughout
he state.
Must Teach Truth.
In order to control social diseases
t is essential that the public be taught
the truth concerning them and the
public must know the dire results Of
hese diseases if they are permitted
% spread unchecked. For this reason
he aim Of the educational section of (
his campaign is to disseminate in :
;truction to the public and to impress
he importance of prompt and. efficient
motion pictures and pamph- :
cts on various phases of social by :
yiene.
Legal Phase. S
The legal phase Of the situation viii !
)e thoroughly taken up and the per-
onrei engaged in the campaign viii l
id communities in reducing CONNER
ial vice to a minimum and will as '
list in the drafting Of laws and ordi-
lances designed to reduce this source =
f infection and spread Of such dis 2
asses. q
Social hygiene, as it IS popularity '
Understood in the United States. deals e
With thes welfare of the family and the I
ace. Therefore, it is of intimate con- [
ern to everybody. Social hygiene en-
ourages those factors which build UP 10
healthier home life and endeavors
0 do away with those which tear h
own and destroy it. q
Social diseases are public foes and ] z
aided by a policy of ignorance and n