Woman Citizen, February 23, 1918
"For Justice And Mercy Women's Over Sea Hospital Unit Sails For France" <br /><br />Cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor <br /><br />Two-page spread "Women's Oversea Hospitals, U.S.A"<br /><br />Back cover advertisement for <em>The Woman Citizen</em>: "Suffragists are the Giants Among Women"
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1918 February 23
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Save Yourself From Influenza...[public health graphic]
Public health information graphic furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health. Illustrations by Carl J. Rostrup of Richmond, Va.<br /><br />Transcription: <br /><br />"SAVE YOURSELF from INFLUENZA and pneumonia, bad colds, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheriam scarlet fever, whooping cough, meningitis, mumps<br /><br />FOLLOW TWO SIMPLE RULES<br /><br />RULE 1: Whenever you cough or sneeza, bow your head or put a handkerchief over your mouth and nose.<br /><br />Rule 2: Don't put in your mouth fingers, pencils, or anything else that does not belong there, nor use a common drinking cup.<br /><br />The Germs of these Diseases are spread through the secetions of the mouth and nose of sick people and carriers.<br /><br />Furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health<br />PLEASE POST: Council of National Defense, C.R. Keiley, Federal Field Secretary"<br /><br />[Image description: Next to the word 'SAFETY' is a drawing of a person coughing into a handkerchief and the text "use handkerchief when you cough or sneeze". Another drawing shows a person sneezng with his head bent down and his respiratory particles going towards the ground. Under this image is the text: "or bend your head toward the ground". Another series of drawings are under the word 'DANGER'. A drawing of someone biting a pencil and a drawing of someone biting their nails are on either side of text that says, "DON'T put pencils or fingers in your mouth". Two more drawings show a person drinking out of a pot and another sneezing with an open mouth spraying respratory particles outward and onto the person drinking. These are follwed with the text "DON'T use common drinking cup or cough or sneeze into the air towards others".]
Virginia State Board of Health
Annual Report of the State Board of Health and the State Health Commissioner to the Governor of Virginia for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1919.<br /><br />Bound with corresponding years of the <a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21397764960001101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Virginia Health Bulletin</a>, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries
1919
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Soldier Attention: A Private Word with You
World War I pamphlet warning soldiers of the effect of sexually transmitted diseases. <br /><br />Transcription: <br /><br />"Soldier, you responded when your country called. You have put your strength, your manhood and your hope into this war. You want to be a clean-cut fighting-man. You want ours to be the most efficient army in the world. You want the army to win. <br /><br />You cannot be a clean-cut fighting-man, you cannot do your part in making a great army and you cannot do your best toward winning the war unless you avoid immoral women. For from these women comes disease. From disease come inefficiency. From inefficiency comes disaster.<br /><br />It is unpatriotic to be immoral. A good soldier will not hazard his physical fitness and his moral cleaness by association with bad women. every man who is moral adds to the strength of the army. Every man who is immoral invites the ruin of the army and the death of himself and his comrades-in-arms.<br /><br />Europe had dound this out. Our associates in the great war for democracy-French,British,Belgian, Russian and the rest--have all seen that the disabilityfrom venereal disease has weakened their armies and has been one of the causes that have postponed final victory. If you want to save America from like experience--if you want victory to come quickly and certainly--you can at least do you share toward keeping the army morally clean and morally straight. <br /><br />Sexual intercourse is not necessary to good health. Self control is. Whihc will you exhibit--the spirit of a man, strong and self-contained, or the spirit of your worst self?<br /><br />We ask you to follow honestly and literally the health regulations of the army. <br /><br />We ask you to keep in touch with your home-folks and to remember that you are fighting for the clean things of life--for home, for sweetheart, for sister and for mother.<br /><br />We ask you to engage only in such amusements as will keep your body in good condition, remembering that clean athletics and manly sport will help prepare you to meet the enemy.<br /><br />We ask you to guard your own conduet while on furlough and to help the other fellow keep straight.<br /><br />We ask you to remember what your body means to your country and your flag: Care for it as a precious possession, dedicated to a worthy cause without reproach or strain.<br /><br />We ask you to remember that you represent the honor, the character and the cleanness of America: By your acts your nation will be judged.<br /><br />This little message is written you from a conference held in the office of the Governor of Virginia and it is signed by friends.
State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Virginia
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State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Between 1914 and 1918
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When They Come Home
<span>This pamphlet is specifically designed to educate the spouses, significant others, and family members of World War I soldiers on the topic of venereal disease. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />Page 2, paragraph 2 : "When men and girls are changing their occupations and ways of life, when war disciplines are being removed and when spirits are buoyant, the greatest temptations to self indulge amid dangerous pleasures occur. Cities and towns throughout the country face now the most important crisis -- the biggest emergency yet encountered in the fight against veneral disease.<br /><br />WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT US<br /><br />'Our ignorance and failure in handling the problem of veneral diseases constitute the greatest crime of American civilization. This is the clearest lesson of the war'. "<br /><br />Page 4, paragraph 2 : "Now the returning soldiers, who have been given intelligent protection and wholesome recreation, are to be turned back to the civil communities. The federal government must, of nessecity, in the next few months, give up its wartime control. These men are <em>your </em>responsibility now."<br /><br />Page 8, paragraph 3 : "With war's final end, many war buildings, war jobs, and institutions will go to the scrap heap. But every item in the program of veneral disease control is as necessary to successful peace as to successful war. Don't scrap your patriotism and community spirit in this manner. There should be no peace for prostitution, no truce for the 'tenderloin', no armistice with veneral disease. Make your blows knockouts against vice. The soldiers, <em>when they come home </em>from the trenches, will be the first to join you in your fight."</span>
United States Public Health Service
M 9 Box 55, Folder "Supplemental Literature," <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors
Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 <br /><br />"The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational Education with the specific task of reeducating, retraining all disabled soldiers and sailors to take their place in the world as independent, self-supporting citizens. <strong>YOU, the employers of America, are charged with the duty of cooperation.</strong>"<br /><br /><strong>Federal Board for Vocational Education Members:<br /></strong><br />David F. Houston, Chairman, Secretary of Agriculture<br />James P. Munroe, Vice Chairman, Manufacture and Commerce<br />William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce<br />Charles A. Greathouse, Agriculture<br />William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor<br />Arthur E. Holder, Labor<br />P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education<br /><br /><strong>Executive Staff:</strong><br /><br />Layton S. Hawkins, Chief Vocational Education Division<br />Charles H. Winslow, Chief Research Division<br />J. A. C. Chandler, Chief Rehabilitation Division<br />Lewis H. Capris, Assistant Director for Industrial Education<br />F. G. Nichols, Assistant Director for Commercial Education<br />Josephine T. Berry, Assistant Director for Home Economics Education<br />W. H. Hummel, Assistant Director for Agricultural Education <br /><br />Compare the cover illustration to this poster titled, "<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/410" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Keep'em Smiling poster">Keep'em Smiling!</a>"
United States. Federal Board for Vocational Education.
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Government publication
1918 November
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