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title: 'From Time Immemorial: Venereal Disease Rates Have Risen Alarmingly During Wars'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/from-time-immemorial-venereal-disease-rates-1941/
description: Line chart of venereal disease rates from 1840 to 1940, with peaks labelled for the Mexican, Civil, Spanish American and World wars.
section: Collection
---

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# From Time Immemorial: Venereal Disease Rates Have Risen Alarmingly During Wars

Line chart of venereal disease rates from 1840 to 1940, with peaks labelled for the Mexican, Civil, Spanish American and World wars, over a photograph of marching soldiers. The headline says rates 'Have Risen Alarmingly During Wars'. The tell is the alarm wording on a selective chart, a fear-appeal; the footer text states the World War I rate was the lowest to that date.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
Venereal Disease Rates
Have Risen Alarmingly
During Wars
MEXICAN WAR
CIVIL WAR
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
WORLD WAR
1840  1860  1880  1900  1920  1940
In World War I the Army's venereal disease rate was the lowest in its history to that time. The all-time low was reached in 1939, after which the trend was upward.
AMERICAN SOCIAL HYGIENE ASSOCIATION
1790 BROADWAY, N. Y. CITY, N. Y.    POSTER NO. 2
```

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