Long description
This black and white lithograph is divided into three panels. The first panel, at the top and taking up two thirds of the lithograph, shows a woman, on the left, slumped over a small coffin. She is wearing a long gown, and her hair is cut short. The large text at the top of this panel reads ‘Syphillis. Hereditary disease killing the race’. To the left of the woman, in large type, is the statement, ‘Women, Fight it’. The second panel below contains more text. It reads: ‘60,000 children in the womb of their mother, 36,000 children from birth to 15 years, die each year in France because they have inherited Syphilis from their parents’. The viewer is also given the source of these statistics. The third panel, at the bottom of the lithograph is the smallest. It provides the details of the publisher of this lithograph, namely, the French Society of Preventative Health and Morals.