14 BAY AREA SEX CLUBS TOLD TO CURB AIDS
The town’s Public wellness Director today ordered 14 bathhouses and intercourse groups providing to homosexuals to close instantly, saying these people were ”fostering infection and death” by permitting indiscriminate contacts that are sexual could spread AIDS.
Boffins state AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency problem, is spread through sexual contact; the majority of its victims are homosexual males. AIDS kills your body’s capacity to fight disease,
Dr. Mervyn Silverman, bay area’s Public wellness Director, said at a news conference that the 14 establishments ”have been examined on a wide range of occasions and show a blatant neglect for the healthiness of their clients as well as the city. ”
He stated the establishments had been among 30 companies examined by undercover wellness officials since an ordinance went into effect banning ”unsafe” sexual activity at sex parlors and bathhouses april. The 14 which he ordered closed have never complied utilizing the ordinance, stated Dr. Silverman, that has been under some pressure from Mayor Dianne Feinstein to purchase the shutdowns.
The authorities posted notices that are closing at noon from the intercourse club structures. In cases where a notice is ignored, the town would head to a judge to have a court purchase shutting along the procedure.
Dr. Silverman’s statement arrived merely an after the department released figures showing an increase in reported aids cases in san francisco, where officials estimate that 15 percent of the city’s population of 700,000 is homosexual week.