[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon] page 67

Croydon 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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VENEREAL DISEASES.

Annual Summary Year 1920.

		London.	Middlesex.	Essex.	Surrey.	Kent.	Herts.	Bucks.	East Ham.	West Ham.	Croydon.	All Districts.
1.	No. of persons dealt with at or in connection with the clinic for the first time and found to be suffering from—
	Syphilis	7,917	704	392	285	206	89	58	121	324	80	10,176
	Soft chancre	570	26	19	12	21	...	2	4	26	3	683
	Gonorrhœa	10,127	872	443	293	182	87	53	164	363	71	12,655
	Not found to be suffering from Venereal Disease	4,998	534	237	165	113	39	32	72	229	58	6,477
	Total	23,612	2,136	1,091	755	522	215	145	361	942	212	29,991*
	Total Attendances	365,478	34,011	12,386	12,190	7,282	2,436	1,946	3,434	10,278	2,480	451,921
4.	No. of "in-patient'' days of Treatment	54,529	1,846	2,924	1,900	3,505	1,324	1,209	332	963	405	68,937
6.	No. of doses of Salvarsan substitutes given	51,266	4,635	2,164	2,666	1,565	643	603	603	1,662	552	66,359
*In addition 1,055 eases were dealt with from "counties outside the scheme," the majority of which were merchant seamen from all parts ot the world.
The total number of new patients dealt with at the Clinics for the year was therefore									29,991
									1,055
									31,046
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
Nature of Test.		London.	Middlesex.	ESEEX.	Surrey.	Kent	Herts.	Bucks.	East Ham.	West Ham.	Croydon.	All Districts.
For Practitioners.
For detection of spirochetes		26	...	1	2	...	...	...	...	...	...	29
For detection of goiococci		1,611	149	113	57	3	12	...	16	11	55	2,027
For Wassermnnn re-action		9 513	537	750	411	67	32	22	136	268	138	11,874
Other examinations		84	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	84
Total		11,234	686	864	470	70	44	22	152	279	193	14,014