Campaign to Eradicate Syphilis in New York City
date: label: date made
content: 1962-1965
name: label: maker
content: New York City Department of Health
notes: label: Description
content: Pink, two-pocket paper folder with black print and bright pink highlights. Folder contains fifteen (15) separate informational pamphlets, booklets, and reprints. Folder Contents: Five (5) reprints of articles on venereal disease, dating from 1962-1964, from popular magazines including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, LOOK, Ladies Home Journal, and TIME, and a reprint of special articles from the Medical Tribune, copyright 1963. Two (2) booklets from the USDHEW, Public Health Service: "The Eradication of Syphilis, Task Force Report to the Surgeon General" (Dec. 1961), and "VD Fact Sheet - 1963," and a booklet published by the American Social Health Association, "Today's VD Control Problem" (March 1964). Material produced by, or specific to, New York City, includes: "An Open Letter to Parents" (brochure), "Free New York City of Syphilis" (brochure), 1965 calendar from the New York City Department of Health, "Facts you should know about the increase in syphilis in New York City" (brochure), fact sheet, "Reported Cases of VD in New York City, 1957-1963," and reprint of article, "Teen-agers and Venereal Disease: a Sociological Study of 600 Teen-agers in New York City's Social Hygiene Clinics" (1963). Stapled to the folder is a business card (no name) for NYC Health Department's "Venereal Disease Education Unit."
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3042.696
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3042.696
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3042
objectType: label: Object Name
content: packet, public health campaign, syphilis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in x 5/8 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm x 1.5875 cm