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Croydon 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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157
SECTION YII.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
The scheme in operation in the Borough consists of the Clinics
held at the Croydon General Hospital. Males attend on Saturday
afternoons and Thursday evenings, women and children on Wednesday
afternoons.
The Clinic is conducted by Dr. P. W. Hamond, who is not
otherwise connected with the Health Department. Croydon is also
one of the participating authorities in the London County Council's
scheme, under which clinics for the treatment of venereal diseases
are provided at a large number of London Hospitals, and at resident
nostels ; the cost being apportioned among the ten participating
authorities in the scheme on a basis of user.

Table: TableLXIX.Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

TableLXIX.Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

1925.1926.1927.1928.19291930.1931.1932.1933.
New male patients11614145121101196263235242a
New female patients15619216015894171205241214a
Attendances, male patients271323602643350235815050492346914978a
Attendances, female patients123013511417163221273029327127242677a

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a Includes 118 new cases and 1640 total attendances by patients from outside areas.

Table: Attendances of Croydon Patients at various London Hospitals under the General Scheme.

Attendances of Croydon Patients at various London Hospitals under the General Scheme.

1925.1926.1927.1928.1929.1930.1931.1932.1933.
New patients138130132139131125139119134
Total attendances264827673160308030893150238428352407

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Of the 134 new patients in 1932, 16 had syphilis, 1 soft
chancre, 46 gonorrhoea, and 71 were not suffering from venereal
disease.