Keywords: U.S. opens war on social diseases.png The first nation-wide effort to combat venereal diseases was launched in Washington today when 300 delegates from 32 states attended the opening session of a three-day conference call by the United States Public Health Service depicted people Left to right Dr Edward Settle Godfrey Jr State Commissioner of Health of New York state Dr Thomas Parran Jr U S Surgeon General Miss Josephine Roche Assistanct Secretary of the Treasury Dr John Hinchman Stokes University of Pennsylvania Medical School Dr Joseph Earle Moore of John Hopkins Hospital 1936-12-28 negative glass in 4 5 Institution Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division object history exhibition history credit line accession number LOC-image hec 21897 pnp <gallery> U S opens war on social diseases 21897v jpg Low resolution Jpeg </gallery> PD-Harris-Ewing Public health campaigns Black and white photographs of the United States in the 1930s Josephine Roche Thomas Parran Jr |