Excerpt from The Western Journal of Education, Vol. 16: January, 1911 Syphilis and Gonococcus Infections haye no statistics given here because these diseases have just been put upon the list of diseases which physicians are required to report. The pre valence oi Syphilis is probably much higher in cities than in rural communities and small towns which form so large a part of the population of California. As a factor in under mining the happiness as well as the health of the race Syphilis far outweighs Tuberculosis in importance. Dr. Prince Morrow, of New York, is quoted in the re port ou National Vitality as saying: The extermination of social diseases would probably mean the elimination of at least one-half of our institutions for defectives, and the rec ords of our California institutions for defectives is in favor of this opinion. Professor Fisher, of Yale University, in the same report, says in the summary of the studies of the com mission: What Syphilis and Gonorrhea represent in the low ered working efficiency of our population it is impossible to estimate. And here again the most striking point is that these diseases are preventable. From an economic standpoint Typhoid Fever is our most important disease, with the single exception of tuberculosis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.