“…The figure for 1952 was 946. Since congenital syphilis is now regarded as an almost 100% preventable disease (Aron et al, 1947;Cole et al, 1950;MacFarlane, 1950;Marinkovitch, 1951), these figures are alarmingly high. The more especially is this so when they are compared with 699 (1951) and 375 (1952) notifications for diphtheria, a comparably controllable infection.…”