The incidence of syphilis among pregnant negro women

Abstract

1.1. Negro parturient women are alleged to have a high incidence of syphilis.2.2. Value of Wassermann during pregnancy is questionable.3.3. Out of 3631 cases there resulted an incidence of 7.48 per cent as compared with higher percentages of other authors.4.4. In a large number of cases there is little difference between syphilitic and nonsyphilitic women as to the final outcome of the pregnancy.