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Mapping venereal disease

During the Second World War the New Zealand Medical Corps produced a regular Atlas of infectious disease. In this March 1942 report on venereal disease in the army, the blue figures represented gonorrhoea and the red syphilis.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

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Jane Tolerton, Sexual health – Sexual health, 1914–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/27210/mapping-venereal-disease (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 30 March 2011.