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^[1]:

     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.