4 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Arrests on felony charges, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1955
Juvenile age 17 and 4 e | Juvenile age 17 and
Adult and juvenile St et ‘ Adult and juvenile B Pateint
Offense ‘Negro Offense 3 : -1 Nearo
F juvenile Juverulc
‘White Negro Negro ‘White White Negro | -Negro White |
It should be noted that the above tables
dealing with arrests on felony charges
are broken down by race, and by adult
and juvenile categories.
Mr. Speaker; these facts speak for
themselves and require no explanation
on the part of anyone.. The people of the
District of Columbia are entitled to this
information.
‘Mr. Speaker, there are many other
reasons why the people of the South,
who know the problems involved, will
never submit to integration in their pub-
lic schools, the Supreme Court’s fiat
notwithstanding.
Mr. Speaker, are there dlfl’erences be-
tween the races with respect to moral
standards: do the two races. really ap-
ply a double standard of morals? Why
do so many white people object to send-
ing their children to integrated schools,
even in the enlishtened District of
‘Columbia?
I think it well that all should know
_the facts, and as amazing and distaste-
ful as they are, I submit the following,
which is an official report of the District
of Columbia Department of Public
Health:
Gonorrhea reported by all sources by sex and color, school age and wnder, fiscal year 1955
Grand total " White Colored
Total | Male |Female| Total | Male Female ‘Totgl Maje Female
Total.. 854 | om0 o84 20 7 13| ‘s34| 263 571
11 - 1
3
1
=
2
6
23 4
66 11
127 22
241 80
373 152
Source: Preventable and Chronic Diseases Division, Vencreal Disease Section, District of Columbia Department of Public Health.
An analysis of this table shows that,
of 854 cases of gonorrhea among school-
age children reported in 1955, 834—or
97.8 percent—were Negro."
This is but another reason why South-
ern States will never submit to inte-
grated public schools.
The adult pattern of venereal d1<ease
is no different. In the Nation’s Capital,
Negroes account for 95 percent of the
venereal disease cases reported. The
following, also taken from an official
report of the District of Columbia De-
partment of Public Health, shows con-
ditions with respect to adult venereal
disease:
Number of cases of venereal diseases reported,! by color and diagnosis, fiscal year 1955
= e R e 5 o o st T"White Ot —
Diagnosis
January- July- January- July-
June December June December
Syphilis:
Total early. 11 16 190 256
Primary and secondary ) (6) (24) (20)
Early latent______ (10) (10) (166) (236)
Late latent and other late 158 174 740 948
Congenital 2 7 2 30 31
Total syphilis 176 192 960 1,235
Gonorrhea, 128 143 4,734 5, 509
Chancroid - 2 2 36 55
Lymphogranuloma venereum 1 2 38 30
Granuloma inguinale. - .18 11
Total venereal diseases. 307 339 - 5,781 6,840
1 Includes new cases previous!y treated and untreated. No correction made for
nonresidents.
3 Cases under 1 year of age reported by clinies: 1 colored male; 2 colored females.
382798—58063
Source: Monthly Morbidity Reports (form 8958-B), Division of Preventable and
gh{,‘f“"i{ Dllstegses Venereal Disease Section, District "of Columbia Department of
ublic Hea!