Serological investigation for treponemal infection of artisan recruits in South Persia.

Routine serological examination of candidates for artisan employment with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan began in the autumn of 1949, and 1,725 reports were available by the spring of 1950. The men were all subjected to physical examination, and apart from occasional reports of an old genital scar none of them had any clinical evidence of syphilis at the time of the serological investigations. The candidates were not drawn from Abadan alone but from all parts of South Persia, with a leavening of migrants from the North. Tests Employed