[3] The film was shot at General Service Studios, Hollywood, California for the Canadian Social Health Council and premiered in Toronto, Ontario.

[4] Damaged Lives was initially released in Canada and a few cities in the United States but screenings were blocked by censors in most American towns.

Later, a medical exam on the wife reveals that her unborn child has syphilis, indicating that one or both of the parents are syphilitic.

[1] Damaged Lives was distributed in Britain through the British Social Hygiene Council (BSHC), which claimed a total viewership of around four million people between August 1933 and May 1934.

The BSHC also claimed to have distributed more than 126,000 pamphlets to audience members with information on syphilis treatment.