social disease

English

Noun

social disease (plural social diseases)

  1. (dated) A sexually transmitted disease
    • 1938, “240 Students Submit to Wassermann Test”, in New York Times‎:
      Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test.
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