A Venereal Disease Rapid Treatment Center (USPHS, 1944)
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2015
- This film shows the medical treatment, social, recreational, and occupational activities, and rehabilitation of female inhabitants of a venereal disease rapid treatment center. Shots include: venereal disease treatment center for women (former CCC camp), girls arriving at a small county jail, physical exam with vaginal smear, inoculation, interview to determine sexual contacts, intravenous drip treatment, occupational therapy, both physical and mental, recreational activities, and farewell and departure.
Produced by the United States Public Health Service and US Department of Agriculture.
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Imagine seeing this video and recognising your grandmother.
I kept looking for relatives.
i saw my both my fathers grandma and my mothers grandma
I think I see Barbara Bush there!
Imagine some could see their great grandma or pa here
There Would Be No Chance of Seeing My Grandmother There! She Was Always Quarantined By Herself, On Deserted Island's In The North Atlantic..
A lot of negative and uninformed comments here. This center was a wonderful thing for its time, a real improvement over how it was before. You can't comdemn the past by today's standards. My dad was a WW II vet. He told me he had to watch VD films that were pretty bad. In 1944 he was overseas while my mom was pregnant with me; I'm pretty sure he didn't mess around.
Yessiree! VD is nothin' to clap about!
@@leftylou6070, especially if you CATCH the clap!
The other was the drip. 1960s
not a jail but they had uniforms and no hippa laws obviously filmed here.
Zing
I appreciate the videos being up here for us to watch. Things have changed so much throughout history. It was much different back then, especially when girls got pregnant or got an std. So many nasty comments. People need to look back at the dust bowl, the Great Depression and world wars.
Yeah I think you are on the right track here. For it’s time it shows some humanity and care for the needs , not just the healthcare but other social and economic needs. STDs still exist and exist with stigma to this day at least the women in this film appear to be treated as humans not just carriers of bacterial infection.
Population Reduction Agenda of the past. All Fear Porn.
CCC Camp!!! 333-3 AMP
Baby, it's so much worse today. Than yesterday. 😢😢
Who would have thought that catching an STD could lead to a career in welding?
And a cartoon picture of a woman in a bandana with the slogan "We Can Do It".
Having a marketable skill in the trades is a damned good self-esteem booster, and provides financial independence (not dependent upon men).
It’s definitely not how one would assume a normal career path would start, but it was probably a godsend to many women who might never be able to gain the experience to pursue jobs like that. And if they came from small towns or small-minded communities, the chance to start over with a job in a new place with no “reputation” was probably best. It was not fair, but a woman with an STD was usually viewed as cheap trash (even if said woman had only ever slept with her husband who was a serial cheater and slept with every living creature). It seems barbaric and backwards, but… in this kind of situation it probably led to better outcomes than most.
This film was made in 1943-1944. They needed women in the manufacturing trade because the war was going on.
LMAO
Please remember that penicillin was not in widespread use yet in the civilian sector and treatment of V D could be problematic when only using sulfa drugs.
or they just withheld treatment altogether and paid burial insurance if you consented to an autospy a la tuskegee experiments
And sulfa drugs were toxic with prolonged use. Hard on the kidneys and liver
I spotted the bad girl. The one chewing gum.
*Absolutely...I saw her too...she meant business!*
Chewing Gum With a Dirty Collar, No Shame!..
Best films from the archives, should be used in schools, 👌
My Great Grand Mother had contracted Syphilis from my great grandfather. She was treated as subhuman as he was patted on the back. Shocking...
Your great grand ma had Syphilis? You know grand ma said not to tell that!
That was, unfortunately, back in the time when women were regarded as temptresses due to ideas about Eve and Mary Magdalene. As far as the guy was concerned, well, it wasn't his fault. She OBVIOUSLY did something to seduce him. I hold the hope that this line of thought no longer exists.
I enjoyed the narrator calling her placement at an aircraft factory a "real" job.
@Jay Dire No, he really WAS! I was in the room at the time! He and the contagion doctor had joined in collusion to kill a many women as they could before the war ended too soon! TRUTH.
@@toddmiller5656 line of thought.
is true
Was I the only one who watched this and thought that the male supervisors at the jobs these women were sent to probably labeled them as "easy" because they'd just come from the Rapid Treatment Center?
What an unfair advantage for those who never had an STD. I wonder how many females said ...okay we can live rent free go through training, get paid for work, save money, have fun, march around in our underwear, dance and put on shows aaaaaand I know which guys you can get the clap from. so I will meet you there, alright?" "YEAH"
Thanks to VD Mary Lou received a education and employment!!! YAY FOR VD!!!
You probably dont give a shit but does anybody know of a way to log back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid forgot my account password. I love any help you can give me
@@orionmalik3120 lol u can UA-cam it
let's give the clap a big round of applause!
Penicillin would do the trick but it wasn't available until the following year.
I loved watching those two girls dance-- you could tell they were really enjoying themselves. Best part of the video!
Except for the one who was scowling. 7:19
@@Dr.Pepper001yes!
Well you know how those...err, types of patients enjoy dancing.
They were dancing well. 🥳
@@yakacm yeah, it's jarring to watch by today's standards. Quite a window into a time of rapid societal change, just after WWII.
Who knew Rosie the Riveter learned her trade at a VD boot camp?!?! 💪🏼🤭😂
Ba, ha, ha! Good 1!
Seriously, very funny 😄
😂🤣😂
'this girl even got a letter from her husband' who ASSUREDLY didn't give it to her...riiiight she gave it to him
Absolutely! You and I know that women are never promiscuous. 😅
Huh?
Hussies
they were both cheating , who knows who gave who what. hubby went to the brothel as did her outside beau
@@user-xg3uy6hq9g you clearly know the entire backstory. she was your mother, eh?
This is an absolutely amazing film. They weren't in the service but it looked like it in the beginning. These girls had somehow gotten an Std. How many had been raped, or molested by family members? Did anyone ask? Its 1944 and some of these women had no vaccinations and didn't know how to read or write. Maybe this program was a blessing in disguise if it got them out of their homes, and got them a job in a new city.
Door knobs in those days were filthy. You could get anything from touching them.Also people swam a lot in pools without chlorine and got pregnant. Times were tough then.
@@venusfirenza2547 wonder why God made adultery fornication mix gathering nudity immorality like that major sin?
If we all stayed away from these sins these thing would never happen
Disgusting problems comes when we break God's created limits
And this is also a reason marriages should be done at early ages possible
Public health was in its infancy. The idea of putting people in camps came out of tuberculosis treatment. Its all they could think of.
@@thunderbear0 Oh, like people can't be sexually assaulted, and get infected TOTALLY against their will? You're just BRILLIANT!
@@thunderbear0 Wnaker
Looks like they had a pretty good time together ❤
And Im sure all the women consented to being in this film too.
Actresses
Yes I remember the old wire brush treatment.
Sulfathiazole, this was before penicillin. Now, gonococci and spirochetes are increasingly more resistant to antibiotics.
I don’t care about the situation in Cebu.
oh i guess some asian country right.@@wdsftygt
Anyone notice that this Venereal Rapid Treatment Centre film was made by the Department of Agriculture?
Good eye, Patricia.. good eye!
It's right on the video description above ... "Produced by the United States Public Health Service and US Department of Agriculture."
There was then no federal top-level department specifically dedicated to health matters, like the modern U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. Public Health Service was a division of the Department of Agriculture. This was 80 years ago, and the federal government was far, far smaller than now in every way, although growing into the vast sector that it is today. It wasn't because anyone was thinking of the women as mere cattle.
So you get syphilis AND a job?!
I'm so glad that these girls were not only getting treated for their illnesses, but had multiple choice opportunities to better themselves in other ways.
VD is fun! You get a combination spa and summer camp!
Who would have ever thought!!! Let's run out and get us some Gonorrhea and show our local health dept this film and demand to go to the all expense paid, free VD day spa!!! Imagine their faces!!!
Scrub pervert.
C'mon on Barbie lets get bangin'!
@@MICKEYISLOWD lmao i can juss hear that song 🎶 & Barbie says "alright Ken" 😄😄😄
That is a lead-based paint they are using in their painting activity 😞
I noticed they used ungloved hands for handling the speculum and for the inoculations.
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, genital warts, herpes simplex virus, BV, HPV, PID, Hepatitis B & C, AIDS/HIV are serious conditions.
This treatment center needs to be a franchise like McDonalds.
bravo ....
Nice intake SHED
Mesmo sem entender 1 palavra do inglês estou vendo o vídeo fantástico.
I grew up leery of eclairs or any pastries with a custard filling.
I`m 70 now. But I remember back in high school, everyone was getting the clap left and right. We'd head over to the Planned Parenthood clinic and they'd give us two shots in the butt, and that would be the end of it. No going to some group home to learn a trade. This is nuts!
Ah, yes, the era of free love - and trusting no one under thirty.
@@commentatron Over thirty.
@@mwbright You're correct; I must have been thinking of nowadays ;-)
That’s because they had effective antibiotics by the 1970’s and it was before AIDS got going.
They had penicillin then. Sulfa was not as expedient at clearing VD.
These centres saved lives . And stopped bd ys been still born or born blind .i think they were great things at the time. There is no way the goverment would spend this kind of money it must have took now days.
Got a letter from her husband.. 😳
To the comments about these women getting vocational training during their treatment, some, if not all of these women were prostitutes and job training was probably an attempt to get them into another line of work.
Lol
During WWII, the nation's economy needed workers. Whether they were prostitutes or virginal farm girls, if they could be taught to weld, rivet, roll bandages, drive trucks, or put 4 tent stakes in a box, they were needed.
7:21 girl looks pissed
This is the early years of Job Corp. Isn't it?
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking, lol!
No. Job Corps came out of the New Deal programs like the CCP or REA and a few other "corps" to put people to work in the 1930s.
What happened to the men, did they also hve VD jail?
STDs are just as big a problem today.
That didn't look very rapid to me.
These women were sent away "jailed" to be treated for a VD that likely came from their own husband.
While he was still at home with his girlfriends 😑
since this is WWII, their husbands were not home.
@@congoparrot and when they did get home the women all lost their jobs
Hmmm....all the girls that slept around.... shameless hussies
Winning 😎
yep, that why they were sent to pre existing ccc camps . the cc corpsmen ee drafted and at war. but they probably got the VD from their hubbys and boyfriends before they were dratfed.@@congoparrot
I guess in a time where “soft seizures” are prescribed for depression, jail is only to be expected for vd treatment
I worked in a psych hospital in the late 80's,early 90's.... Electric shock therapy was still done at that time, on a weekly basis they lined up...
@@jillijane9793 It’s still used today because some patients swear by it and have been helped when meds didn’t work. A little investigation and you’re going to find some very famous people who were treated with it.
Damn, woman with vd back in the 40s were sent to jail or a concentration camp.
These are indigent and poor women who do not have the money to pay regular doctors. Nothing about this is a prison. The alternative is continued disease, illness and death.
@@KB4QAA When you do not have a choice to leave or to do what you please. That by definition is a jail.
@@bobalobalie No, that is not the definition of a jail. Buy a dictionary.
STD’s from 1935-1955 ( peak in 55) greatest generation?
@@bobalobalie you’re a disgusting welfare leftist who’s religion is enabling the worst of human behaviour.
It's odd watching this video and seeing that nobody from the nurse, to the doctor to the food service wore gloves. Remember when gloves began to be standard precautionary practice? Anybody? Anybody? Because I do: when AIDS was discovered. Not HIV...they didn't discover that until after AIDS.
*I sure remember..."Universal Precautions."*
Yes, no gloves except for surgery, but lots of hand washing. There was no hand sanitizer. Masks have become standard after Covid.
I'm confused, much of the treatment seems to have nothing to do with venereal disease, it seems more like a rehab center to help get their life in order. Is the assumption that they contracted venereal disease from loose living and need correction?
Donald get tested quick ! I think i spotted here Stormy Daniels geting treatment....
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The good old days
At 3:45, Mary Lou reveals the names of her contacts. To which the Doctor replied, How did you remember all of those names?
Mary Lou was rather cute. But I am going to guess this place was a lot more like "Cool Hand Luke" than we might suspect. I like the line of women marching at the beginning. Reminded me of the new reel of female SS camp guard women filmed in Germany at the end of the war.
The woman that got a letter from her husband. I thought which one decided to cheat and gave the other this disease.
2023= outpatient everything. At least they got 24/7 care.
Rehabilitate for a sti?
Notice that the women are referred to as "girls".
Well...that's not in the slightest weird. Hey Gramma what service were you in during the war? Oh I was in the VD brigade. I understand it was a different time, but they've given them a uniform, that's just strange.
And I thought these were crazy times.
My mom's uncle brought VD home to his wife after WW1. He went deaf she became blind and bitter.
probably syphilis
Summer camp, scout camp,cheer camp, fat camp ,jezzus camp and now clap camp.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
I can just hear that 1950's PSA announcer in my head... "You see...Mary has...VD!"
Where are the men?
We're they allowed to leave before their treatment was complete? No? Then, wrap it up as nicely as you like, but these women were jailed for having a STI when the men who gave it to them were likely still running around passing it to others.
If it was such a problem that the National Security Administration thought it was hindering "the war effort" & they needed to quarantine these women who had it then it stands to reason that EVERYONE with the shit should also get forced treatment.
Yea, "the good old days". If this was when America was "great", think I'll take a pass & keep all my modern ideals & conveniences. Have a great day & watch out for VD as it's apparently the scourge of the NSA.
Natasha Burdette Yep I knew about this since I was a kid. One of my great aunts had a best friend which she had from elementary school who was jailed/treated when her fiance cheated & she ended up getting VD after sleeping with her fiance who CLAIMED "he had also never done this before" (He went on to infect 5 other women that she knew of [who were all jailed/treated] & God only knows how many he infected before her. He was never put into treatment against his will). She apparently was in complete shock because she trusted him. They did NOT end up getting married. She never did get married. It was a very sad thing.
It still makes me crazy when we get 2 groups of people that are treated VERY differently & that is why my comment had more than a little sarcasm & you could maybe "hear" my frustration. Have a great day.
Tazhie Nunurbusinezz that is so sad🙁
tuberculosis was treated the same way, forcible confinement . without antibiotics, treatment was difficult.
Well before we get wrapped in public indignation I’m surprised of the sexist assumptions that the man gave it to her. The simple fact is a lot of these women were hookers and VD was a problem in the Armed Forces. This is one way of dealing with it in war time.
There was a time when people were quarantined if deemed a health threat to society: TB, VD, Typhoid Fever were hard to cure. We forget the great epidemics of the past: polio, diphtheria, typhoid and VD. These were real. Isolating carriers was a prudent method of protecting society. The needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few.
Don’t judge by contemporary standards. By applying today’s values after the fact, you are only demonstrating an inability to understand the mindset and worldview of the time. It was a treatment method, nothing more, today we have better treatment method, but if the women sent there prevented someone catching VD especially a soldier in time of war, it was worth it. Yes it is collectivist but there are collectivist aspects of our society today, just manifested in different ways.
Tazhie Nunurbusinezz people in the military were forced to have treatment and the military regularly had “short arm” inspections where the troops were treated for VD. If you were a civilian and someone caught it from you and named you as a contact during treatment, you were forced to be treated regardless of gender.
I dont get how being in a semi-prison helps cure VD?
Its called a couple of days on an antibiotic now.
Where are the men who infected them?
So, did the men who infected them have to go to jail too? Of course not, the husband had to stay home to supervise the nanny he'd have to employ in her absence.. 🙄
Husband was off at war. There was a labor shortage, so not a lot of nannies were available.
No, typically they were drafted into the military, if they had not already volunteered.
@1:20: Taken to JAIL for venereal disease?!
That was insane ,crazy shit back then man.
🤣
And she said, "Sorry chap, got the clap!"😂
What do thay do with the men who give it to the women nothing
Mostly, drafted them. Discovered they had VD, treated them for it WHILE they were in boot camp. Sent them to fight in the war.
Military service.
Wow! Beauty Saloon classes. For after they get out of gonorrhea rehab. Whooppee, let's try it again!
"This woman got a letter from her husband" 😂
Hello Mary Lou, goodbye health...From streetwalker to sheet-metaler.
It’s a subtle gesture, but I swear at 1:11, as they made these women parade in front of the camera, one of the last girls gives an almost “flipping the bird” gesture while looking right at the camera person. These women were not happy to be there. This was a sham propaganda film.
Lucky Mary Lou
sheriff brings them in...
Stay tuned for Herpes Hopscotch
A delightful film. Very sexily made. A compassionate, if a bit authoritarian and oppressive way to treat these girls who almost seem to be criminals for catching a venereal disease. Society feels it needs to keep female sexuality in line, I guess, one way or another. There is really no role in my opinion for anything but the medical treatment, such as working as a way to "rehabilitate" them, but at least it's not too abusive. Since then things have both improved and gotten unimaginably worse for women. For the most part society is content with dispensing medical treatment now, except if the women's partners are "underage" then the situation is horribly worse and they are horrifically punished by sometimes decades in real prison. That particular brand of misogyny would have been inconceivable in 1944, but now it is so normalized that I can scarcely write this without being censored.
0:47 that’s a real sad looking bunch 😮
Nobody of the girls was willing to have the sypf. Nobody of the boys wanted to give the syph. Why no solution earlier?
Phew, tough watching. How humiliating. And to think of all the candidates running around today, not in a movie for all to watch, but just taking a pill and continuing same ole behavior.
MaryLou! I’m very happy you learned a new skill, we’re hired at a wage you could support yourself on….it amazed me you were sent off to the new place- but we weren’t told if you had a home there. 😮. I will imagine you were welcomed with open arms by a loving family. Saved up and moved into a swell place all your own in no time. 🤔🤭
It definitely seems like an alternative to jail, I can't imagine these are your average gals who end up with a vd
Yes, they were. Most had contracted it from their husbands and boyfriends, while said husbands and boyfriends were on leave, during WWII.
naw there was a large number of people something like 1 in 5 adults had vd at the time. women were tested if they had babies. people had to be checked prior to getting a marriage license.
Some girls just want to have fun,,, but pay a price,same with guys. Clean up the pp,s!!!!!
@@user-xg3uy6hq9g I'm old enough that I had to have a VD test before getting my marriage license.
Them corn fields get ya in trouble like Marylou 🤤
I've been in em.
Hickabilly, Tennessee 🇺🇸
Rosie the Riveter
And Wilma the Welder...!
Rosie the Hiveter.......... watch out Mary Lou
"Where should we send you job offer letter? Oh, send it to the VD treatment center"
Pretty women and “farm girls” geez thanks
I think he said “city”.
I think I might be a farm girl lol
Mary Lou has the clap, but she gets a job!
Anybody that has been in the Army has had mass Short Arm Inspections
The doctor didn't even have a gas mask.
I would've said I had it just to go 😂
Wow VD sure looks fun!
"Look mom! I made it into the movies!"
Clap Camp
All the women had met the men at Applebee's.
The choice of music is bizarre.
That doctor diving in without gloves...Also, I noticed the black girls got the most dirty and heavy work, or I am wrong?
"Boys PITCH...and girls CATCH".
just saying.
Not your grandma's VD
Holy Shit!
Women really have had to put up with some BS over the centuries. However, the horrible shaming these ladies were subjected to seemed to balance out with the several days of bedrest and spontaneous dance parties! Who brought the Chiquita banana dance costumes to the VD shack with the hope that a dance party might break out during their stay? Good for them and way to hold their heads up high! I too might be willing to catch a treatable infection if it meant I’d be able to go somewhere and sleep unbothered! As it is I am a woman in 2024 forced to carry health insurance on myself and yet still expected to pay ridiculous copays and outrageous prices for medicines. Ah, the good old days ….
I guess boys just didn't get treatment.
No they got sent to war......
They did too, from the US military, typically.