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Venereal Disease (Gonorrhoea and Syphilis).—Venereal Disease
is not notifiable. I am not able therefore to advise the Council of
the number of new cases occurring in the Borough. I am only
able to refer to the published figures of the number of new cases
of Venereal Disease treated in hospital clinics throughout England
and Wales. From 1954 until 1961 there had been an ever increasing
number of cases of Venereal Disease, indeed the number of new cases
of gonorrhoea treated in hospital clinics in 1961 was double that in
1954. However, it is pleasing to note that in 1962 the figures are
rather lower than those for 1961.
Studies of the national figures reveal, inter alia,
1. A serious increase in young people between the ages of
15 and 24 years.
2. Over half the males attending clinics are immigrants, the
vast majority of whom contracted the infection in this
country.