Syphilis and pregnancy 60 years ago.?

What did they do to treat syphilis in the baby after delivery when mother was infected with Syphilis?

In the US: Incidence of primary and secondary syphilis was about 100,000 cases in 1940, prior to the introduction of antibiotics.

T pallidum is sensitive to the penicillins and is easily treatable in the early stages.
Both of these statements came from:

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic563....

Depending on when the baby was born he/she may not have been treated (congenital syphilis) or had antibiotics.

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