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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Statement showing the services rendered at the Treatment Centre during the
year, classified according to the areas in which the. patients resided.
| Name of County or County Borough (or Country in the case of persons residing elsewhere than in England and Wales) to be inserted in these headings. | London. | Essex. | Herts. | Surrey. | Kent. | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Number of persons from each area dealt with during the year at or in connection with the out.patient Clinic for the first time and found to be suffering from:. | ||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 307 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 3 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 338 |
| Soft chancre | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Gonorrhœa | 380 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 397 |
| Conditions other than venereal | 23 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 23 |
| Total | 710 | 37 | 4 | 3 | 4 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 758 |
| B. Total number of attendances at the out.patient Clinic of all patients residing in each area | 18,129 | 67 | 10 | 5 | 5 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 18,216 |
| C. Aggregate number of "Inpatient days" of all patients residing in each area | 126 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 126 |
| D. Number of doses of Salvarsan substitutes given in the:. | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| 1. Out.patient Clinic | 3,524 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 3,564 |
| 2. In.patient Dept. to patients residing in each area. | 20 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 20 |
| E. Give the names of Salvarsan substitutes used in the treatment of syphilis and the usual initial and final doses. | Nov..Arsenobenzol. Novarsenobillon. Galyl. (Intramuscular). Silver Salvarsan. Neo..Kharsivan. Sulpharsenol. Eight injections in a course with ten injections of Mercury Grey Oil, Mercurosal, Benzoate, or Cyanide of Mercury. | |||||||||||
| F. State the amount and kind of treatment usually administered to a case of Syphilis of each of the types usually dealt with at the Treatment Centre. | E. W.R. every three months after completion of a course for two years. Supervision monthly for one year after last course. | |||||||||||
| G. State the nature of tests applied in deciding as to discharge of patients referred to in Item 5 on previous page. | Gonorrhoea.—Three tests at weekly intervals—Each test: Slides and cultures from urethra, thread and prostatic fluid after massage. Urethroscopic examination. | |||||||||||
(Signed) KENNETH M. WALKER,
Medical Officer of the Treatment Centre.