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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:181-186
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

The social pathology of syphilis in Africans

Sidney L Kark

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The problem of syphilis in South Africa is so closely related to the development of the country that a study of the social factors responsible for its spread is likely to assist in its control. Few countries can have a higher incidence of the disease than has South Africa. Table 1Go indicates the extent of the problem.


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  		Table 1 The incidence of syphilis in various African groups studied in South Africa
 
The data include sample studies of men, women, children and babies. They indicate the extent which syphilis has spread to urban and rural areas. In the school children examined by Kark and le Riche5 in 1938–1939, the incidence of definitely positive Wassermann tests in the total urban group was 23.6%, and in all rural areas it was 23.28%. Cluver’s figures,2 as well as those of the Polela group,6 also indicate that syphilis is probably as widespread in rural areas as it . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Historical
 
Results of the discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1867
The results of the discovery of gold
Housing
Distribution of the African population according to the 1936 Census17
Rural areas
Conclusions

   The shifting nature of the population
 
Conclusions
The marital status of adult African men and women in rural and urban areas
Urban
Rural
Conclusions from these data

   General discussion and conclusions
 

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