PEDIATRICS Vol. 6 No. 2 August 1950, pp. 321-324
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PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

CONGENITAL SYPHILIS

BETTY HUSE M.D.1, W. H. AUFRANC M.D.2, and MARY S. GOODWIN M.D.3

1 Pediatric Specialist, Program Planning Brqanch, Division of Health Services, Children's Bureau
2 Medical Director, Assistant Chief, Division of Venereal Disease, Public Health Service
3 Special Consultant to Division of Venereal Disease, Public Health Service Washington, D.C.

Editors: MYRON E. WEGMAN, M.D..

Congenital syphilis still occurs too frequently. The transmission of the disease to infants can be eliminated through adequate case-finding and treatment of pregnant women. For those children who, in spite of past and present efforts to control syphilis among pregnant women, have congenital syphilis, the goal is detection and treatment at the youngest age possible.