IMPACTUL SOCIAL AL BOLILOR VENERICE ÎN CARAȘUL INTERBELIC
SOCIAL IMPACT OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN THE INTER-WAR TIMES IN CARAȘ

Summary/Abstract: For being a fundamental element within a solid society, health needed certain financial efforts in infrastructure and human resources, especially for the rural environment. Precarious hygiene and lack of medical education led to an alarming incidence of contagious maladies up to become sanitary epidemic problems with a strong social impact in the inter-war times in Caraș. Some of pre World War I realities, as subsistence and social dismay made a virulent frame that facilitated the genesis of favorable milieus to develop contagious maladies. Venereal maladies, as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid were identified through medical research as ones of the main prevalent social maladies. The phenomenon of venereal maladies was one of the main objectives of the sanitary system in inter-war times that had to face to still persistent insalubrity in certain social strata and to lack of prophylactic information; they were the main troubles in fighting against those lethal diseases. The main problems the sanitary system had to control were frequently relating to phenomena generated by venereal maladies. Reducing of dissemination, improving of treatment, and optimizing the anti-venereal propaganda through means of education were the daily aspects in medical work for sustainable solutions.

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