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Certainty of the infant's escape from infection is only absolute
when a blood examination has been made and found negative.
The mothers do not easily allow this examination, and this year in
only one instance was it possible to obtain permission to make the
case complete and certain.
But regarding their own treatment none of the mothers were
difficult, all attending the Clinic quite happily.
A number of cases were examined also for other V.D. conditions,
but in every instance they were found free from disease. As I have
remarked in previous reports, the percentage of positive Wassermann
tests obtained in the mothers attending this Clinic has become
low to an astonishing degree. This must depend originally on a
diminishing incidence of V.D. in the general population of the
Borough. This, coupled with ante-natal treatment of those women
who are affected should in the near future make congenital venereal
affections of little more than historical interest.-