Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 4 · column 7 of 9 · from the scan, no model involved
One in four persons in Virginia will have venereal disease before they are 25 and one in ten will contact VD before graduating from high school. These and other chilling statistics have prompted Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr. to declare September as Venereal Disease Education and Prevention Month in an effort to focus attention on the problem.
According to a fact sheet distributed by the Virginia Alliance for the Eradication of Venereal Disease, Virginia ranked 16th in the nation in gonorrhea based on cases per 100,000 population and ranked 11th in syphilis. VD cases are found in EVERY city and county in Virginia with reported cases representing approximately one-fourth of the actual cases. Estimated minimal costs of VD to Virginia’s taxpayers is $26,000,000 per year.
Gonorrhea, the most prevalent of the venereal diseases, has shown a steady increase in Virginia over the past 13 years. Only the common cold affects more people than gonorrhea, according to the State Health Department.
“Three factors make-, gonorrhea hard to control,” said Jim Houlihan, VD Program Supervisor. "They are the short incubation period, the large number of
94.3%