To indicate briefly a few of the actual achievements of the division of the Public Health Service entrusted with the direction of the campaign against venereal diseases in cooperation with the state agencies of the country; and to indicate briefly, also, what the year's experience has taught concerning the future development and advance, is my purpose in this paper.
It will be recalled that on the declaration of war the U. S. Public Health Service was given the responsibility, by Congress and presidential order, of supervising sanitary conditions in the zones created around military establishments. The comprehensive program promptly outlined, whereby this task might be fulfilled and the health of the fighting forces protected at the avenues of civilian communication, included, among other measures, the proper supervision over water, food and milk supplies; the proper disposal of human excreta; the elimination of breeding places of flies and mosquitoes, and the