1 For Negro girls. Fairwold was started by the Negroes of South Carolina. The State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs is largely responsible for its maintenance. 2 County school, which serves the state as a state school. LOCATION OF REFORMATORIES AND REFORM SCHOOLS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS +Reformatories for Women Reform Schools for Girls O Reform Schools for Both Boys and Girls GOVERNMENT PRONOUNCEMENTS COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE The General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense held hearings in accordance with the following recommendation of its Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation: The venereal diseases. Among the communicable diseases disseminated through human contacts, syphilis and gonorrhea are preeminently of first importance in their bearing upon military efficiency. Under present conditions it is vitally essential that a practical program for the control of these diseases be adopted and immediately placed in operation. This program will include at least three lines of effort. 1. Discovery, treatment, and supervision of individuals infected. 2. Instruction and protection of individuals not infected. 3. Investigation, demonstration, and public education directed toward the development of more effective measures than are at present applicable. The epidemiology of the venereal diseases is such that military and civil requirements for their control are interdependent, and are closely related to the problems of control of prostitution and alcohol. Following the experience of the English government in appointing the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases for the purpose of studying this question and creating an informed public opinion through the hearings and sittings of the Commission, it would seem advisable that the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation should hold at an early date a hearing on this subject, inviting for the purpose prominent sanitarians, urologists, dermatologists, syphilogists, genito-urinary specialists, and representatives of social hygiene and welfare agencies. As a result the Council, on May 7, 1917, formally adopted the following resolutions: WHEREAS, venereal infections are among the most serious and disabling diseases to which the soldier and sailor are liable; WHEREAS, they constitute a grave menace to the civil population; Therefore, the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation of the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense, recommends that the General Medical Board transmit to the Council of National Defense for the guidance of the War and Navy Departments the following recommendations: 1. That the Departments of War and Navy officially recognize that sexual continence is compatible with health and that it is the best prevention of venereal infections. 2. That the Departments of War and Navy take steps toward the prevention of venereal infections through the exclusion of prostitutes within an effective zone surrounding all places under their control, and by the provision of suitable recreation facilities, the control of the use of alcoholic drinks, and other effective measures. |