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Contact tracing is difficult and time consuming because the "clues" given by patients are often very
vague. When contacts are local or within the London area they can usually be traced by patience and
persistence and the help of colleagues in other Boroughs. Tracing is very difficult when the contact has been
a casual "pick-up" in another part of the country, and these persons if infected but untraced and untreated
will be responsible for much of the increase in the incidence of venereal disease, though some of them may
present as new patients at clinics in their own areas.
The efforts being made to increase public awareness of the dangers of sexual promiscuity, of the signs
and symptoms of venereal disease and of the necessity of seeking treatment if infected are referred to in
the Health Education section of this report.
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