期刊
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
卷 27, 期 3, 页码 508-529出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt123
关键词
venereal diseases; Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases 1913-1916; British History 1900-1920; syphilis prevalence; Wassermann Test; sensitivity and specificity; gonorrhoea
资金
- Wellcome Strategic Award [088708]
Public fears of widespread venereal disease led in 1913 to the appointment of The Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases (RCVD). In 1916 its Final Report offered only a single cautious and somewhat imprecise summary statement about the likely prevalence of venereal diseases in England and Wales. Although the significance of contemporary attitudes to venereal disease has attracted a good deal of historiographic attention, no historian or demographer has since investigated this aspect of the Royal Commission's work. This article critically re-examines the most important quantitative evidence presented to the Royal Commission relating to the years immediately prior to the First World War. It utilises this evidence to produce new estimates of the probable prevalence of syphilis among adult males, both nationally and among certain geographical divisions and social groups in the national population; and also to offer a comment on the likely prevalence of gonorrhoea.
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