Metropolitan news., February 27, 1937, Page 5, Image 5

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300,000 TO DIE!
Venereal diseases will wipe out at least that many Americans in 1937!
Don’t encourage premature death
by neglecting or self-treating either
syphilis or gonorrhea, but visit a
physician or this clinic—at once!
LAST year automobiles killed some 37,000 per
. sons and the entire nation was shocked. The
widest possible publicity was given to those
thousands of tragic deaths. Yet during 1937 ve
nereal diseases and their complications will kill fully
300,000 Americans — more than eight times as
many as automobile accidents—and you will hear
little or nothing about it!
This staggering loss of life is largely avoidable,
for syphilis and gonorrhea can be cured if treated
in time by a competent physician or clinic. Thus
to neglect these infections, or to try to treat them
yourself, Is to deliberately encourage permanent
disability and early death!
Any doctor will tell you that neglected or self
treated syphilis may easily lead to heart disease,
blindness, deafness, locomotor ataxia, apoplexy, pa
ralysis or even insanity! And that it causes women
to have stillbirths, or to bear babies that are de
formed or feeble-minded.
As for neglected or self-treated gonorrhea, it may
result in a sight-destroying eye infection, crippling
rheumatism, sterility, or serious prostate, bladder
and other troubles. In women it is a frequent cause
of mutilating pelvic operations that make it impos
sible for them to have children thereafter.
I How to escape early death!
If you know or suspect that you have a venereal
infection, the surest way to escape disability and
early death is to quickly put yourself in the hands
of a reliable physician or clinic and continue treat
ment faithfully until pronounced cured. So don't
delay another day, but go immediately to your
family doctor or come to the Public Health Institute!
The friendly, sympathetic men and women physi
cians of the Public Health Institute confine their
practice solely to syphilis and gonorrhea. Hence
they render a much more highly specialized service
than is generally available. Up to now they have
given more than 4,000,000 treatments to almost
250,000 individual patients—a record to inspire the
utmost faith in their ability and experience!
Each patient of the Public Health Institute is
promptly attended in a private room, and to insure
even greater privacy is known by number instead
of by name. In fact, it is impossible to obtain vener
eal disease treatment more confidentially than at
the Institute!
Treatments as low as $1.00
Organized by public-spirited citizens as a corpora
tion “NOT-FOR-PROFIT” under the laws of the
State of Illinois, the Public Health Institute offers
low’ cost venereal disease attention to those unable
to pay higher fees. A complete examination for
syphilis and gonorrhea, including Wassermann
blood test, smears and urinal/sis, costs only $3.00,
while some treatments for syphilis cost as little as
$1.00 and some of those for gonorrhea still less!
Thus it is foolish to risk being numbered among
the 300,000 who will die this year as a result of
venereal infections. For not only can the very best
of venereal disease treatment be obtained confi
dentially and at nominal cost, but even persons tem
porarily pressed for funds can arrange to be treated.
NOTE: The Public Health Institute has no
connection icith any other Chicago health
or medical institute, and should not be con
fused with those operated for personal gain!
OFFICERS & TRUSTEES
JOSEPH H. KING
President. Public Health Institute
National Regulator Co.
THOS. R. GOWENLOCK
Vice-President
Public Health Institute
ROBERT A. GARDNER
Vice-Pres. & Trews.. Public Health Institute
Mitchell, Hutchins & Co.
A. B. DICK, JR.
Secretary, Public Health Institute
A. B. Dick Company
A. A. CARPENTER
Ayer Sc JLord Tie Co.
DAVID A. CRAWFORD
President, Pullman Co.
NATHAN WM. MacCHESNEY
MacChesney. Becker and Wells
ALBERT A. SPRAGUE
.Sprague, Warner & Co.
JOHN T. PIRIE
Carson, Pine, Scott Sc Co.
HAROLD F. McCORMICK
Chairman of the Board
International Harvester Co.
MARSHALL FIELD
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
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