VD Increase
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In Samoa
The Samoa Bulletin in December claimed that the next report of the Western Samoa Health Department would con tain “a bombshell” in revealing a big increase in venereal disease in Samoa.
From a rate of less than 10 cases a year, the incidence had increased 139 cases since June, and all had been traced to the growing number of beer joints in the country, said the Bulletin.
The paper said the disease had spread to every district in Samoa, and added: “This pic ture corresponds with that in other parts of the Pacific, but nowhere has the rise in disease been so dramatic as in Samoa”. (See “Rising Incidence of Venereal Disease”, PIM Dec., p. 75).