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It will be seen that the number of new cases of syphilis was the lowest yet
recorded.

Importance is attached to the necessity for securing the regular attendance of
patients at the clinics, more especially in the case of gonorrhoea, and efforts to secure
the requisite provision of facilities for intermediate treatment at times other than
during the hours when the medical officer attends are meeting with considerable
success. A number of patients still fail to complete the full course of treatment
considered necessary before final discharge, due in no small measure to the false
impression that a cure has been effected on the disappearance of outward signs of
the disease. The need for improving conditions likely to cause patients to discontinue
attendance at the clinics continues to receive careful attention. Where necessary,
patients are transferred from one clinic to another, which they can attend more
conveniently.
Attendances.
In past years the ratio of attendances has been stated as so many attendances
to each new case of V.D. admitted to the clinics during the year. By this means
an estimate, comparable year by year, is obtained of the efficiency of the work as
measured by the continued attendance. For the year 1935 the total attendances of
V.D. patients was 1,050,173, and the ratio of attendances of V.D. patients to new
V.D. cases was 69, compared with 66 in 1934 and 59 in 1933.