The Conspiracy of Silence.
Medically, venereal diseases belong to the oldest and best worked out class of diseases, tho their treatment only recently, due to the new discoveries, has been put on a definite and secure basis. Socially, their tremendous importance for the health, morals, and happiness of a community is just being disclosed to society, which heretofore, in its prudish and ostrich-like attitude, attempted to solve the problem of venereal peril by ignoring it and suppressing free discussion or preventive education along these lines. Naturally, the evil unchecked, tho driven underground by a prohibition of publicity, has spread to such a monstrous size that society could not any more feign not to see it and to continue the old policy of “conspiracy of silence.”