, 1922-09-23
RESULTS SHOWN
IN HEALTH WORK
Of CITY CLINIC
Disease Fight Conduct
/. ed by Venereal Experts
Important to Casper
Welfare.

To watch and safeguard The health
81 Casper residents has always been
~. aim Of each and every member Of
ne adm n~istration. II is one subject
spon which there IS never argument.
- do this in the most thorough and
-ptodate manner. some Of the best
sien along certain lines have been
s,sfed into consultation. and the result
a highly efficient o~rganizat-on-
fhe CIV Venereal Clinic. established
= fully equipped quarters at the city
sal.
II fs operated under the administer
Con q the wyoming state board OF
tealth which co-operates with the Tn
led states Health Service venereai
Control division. but actual results
Ire credited TO the county health Of
cccr. and the clinic physicians. DR.. j.
Z o'DonneI. and DIT. @. b Under
jtool. the latter being aided in this
Vrork By n graduate nurse Of long ex-
berience. Miss BATE
The clinic physician IL in attendance
daiiy. except Sundays and holidays
md the nurse on duty from . n. m. to
{ p. IN.
The operation OF the clinic is Eov-
armed by a few elastic rules which
sre .lade as a guide 10 the bes- in
rteyts Of the public health. briefly
a. ere as follows;
All prisoners sen. Cnced to 1atl are
e11mined 10 determine whcIher o. rot
tfiey are infected with venereal disease
{ NY form.
- known ~brosr,frrS att tbss'
wn to have as~caiatD'. with them
f-e examined.
II any person IL found 10 he in
tected with disease OF n social nature
~ is treated BY the clinic free OF
sarge and quarantined while under
-ping treatment II that is brought to
T. necessary. If ON the otaef hand,
\ the opinion OF tho clinic physician.
Z is safe and the patient has the
means he lie allowed TO visit the clinic
scr treatment or TO take treatment
Tom any licensed physician whom he
-lects.
DR.. ]. r. o'Donnell, in commenting
lspon the success of the clinic a. a
rreans OF stamping u social disease,
In the fifteen months the clinic
been operating there have oeen
less than 400 cases treated in
gradually diminishing daily numbers.
10 addition there have been several
ifundred visits MACS TO determine the
OF reported cases. In my opin-
at the present rate OF reduction OF
dases. IL is onfy a matter OF time until
disease OF this nature IS pract; cally
eliminated"
This coming from a doctor OF J. F.
6Donneirs experience shows to some
extent the value of the work of the
dlinic.
DR.. Underwood. the clinic physician.
u a dermatoiogist Of national reputa-
don. having studied at Tufts College
n Boston. University of Pennsylvania
md University of Paris. 1t is due,
N no small part to his efforts and
that the clinic is the big
actor in the public henlth OF Casper
hat il is today. In speaking OF the
trotsd as follows:
The value Of organized and syste-
patic combat against one of the
perils # all tlmes-the spread
" social disease-is inestimahle. The
ta1ue to h preent generation is
'eRily secondary as the fight is for the
yfotection Of the unborn. The curing
. a single case may save the state
nation a great number OF blind.
esble-miEded and criminal insane.
she state OF New Jersey has stats.
rs complied showing hat a single
contracted during Revolutionary
mes has resulted in the dependency
ipon the state OF 35S of the 3s2 de-
ifendants. It is a subject worthy Of
Ieen consideration by every one