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IN a recent paper (J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 122, 365 ; 1943) Dr. W. G. Smillie maintains that the incidence of syphilis among white men in the greater part of the United States is low, and that it is limited for the most part to the lowest classes of society, so that it has become a disease largely of the ignorant, the careless, the criminal and the social outcast. Syphilis, however, is more than ten times as prevalent among the Negroes as among white persons. In recent examinations for army service, the incidence of syphilis among whites was 0.2 per cent, as compared with 11.2 per cent among Negroes.
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Syphilis in the United States. Nature 152, 243 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152243b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152243b0