San Francisco’s City Clinic turned 100 on Monday, marking a century of providing STD treatment to city residents.
The Municipal Clinic of San Francisco was founded in 1911 to address the “red plague” of syphilis among prostitutes, according to a Department of Public Health-commissioned history. But the clinic immediately became a target of conservatives, and it closed after just two years. It reopened in the 1920s as the Social Hygiene Clinic. By the 1950s, it became known as the City Clinic.
Public health officials credit the City Clinic for its work confronting an array of challenges, from 1967’s “Summer of Love” to the emergence of AIDS, crack cocaine, and crystal methamphetamine. San Francisco has long been recognized for providing non-judgmental prevention and treatment services, said Susan Philip, director of STD prevention and control for the health department. City Clinic, now located in a renovated firehouse on Seventh Street, charges $10 for STD treatment, but no one is turned away due to their inability to pay. The clinic’s clientele includes mostly teens, 20-somet …
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