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Immigration and the social unheaval which this entails
has been mentioned as a further cause for the increase
in gonorrhoea, but investigation in London showed that
of 368 male immigrants attending a clinic, only 15 had
become infected before arrival in this country and that
some of these had acquired the disease in other countries
on their journey to Britain. Another series of patients
showed that 50% of male cases were immigrants and 50%
were men normally resident in Britain, while in women,
17% were immigrants and 83% were women of this country.
Social work must be directed to ensure that lonely
young men with no home ties are persuaded to interests
other than the company of promiscuous women. There i s
need also for more united action between doctors, the
churches and social agencies, and it is gratifying to
record that this is now coming into being more rapidly
than formerly, with promising results in this and other
fields of health promotion.