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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 1922
[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. | Middlesex. | 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 | 123 | 37 | 5 | 53 | 5 | 12 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 235 |
| Soft chancre | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Gonorrhœa | 233 | 34 | 3 | 40 | 4 | 9 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 323 |
| Conditions other than venereal | 28 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 28 |
| Total | 384 | 71 | 8 | 93 | 9 | 21 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 586 |
| B. Total number of attendances at the out-patient Clinic of all patients residing in each area | 15,084 | 629 | 38 | 832 | 49 | 70 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 16,702 |
| C Aggregate number of "Inpatient days" of all patients residing in each area | 106 | 6 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 12 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 170 |
| D. Number of doses of Salvarsan substitutes given in the:— | ||||||||||||
| 1. Out-patient Clinic | 1,782 | 204 | 22 | 567 | 19 | 32 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 2,626 |
| 2. In-patient Dept. to patients residing in each area. | 6 | .... | .... | .... | 2 | 3 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 11 |
E. Give the names of Salvarsan
substitutes used in the treatment
of syphilis and the usual
initial and final doses.
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.
G. State the nature of tests
applied in deciding as to
discharge of patients referred
to in Item 5 on previous page.
Nov.-Arsenobenzol. Corbiere .45 to .9
Nov.-Arsenobillon .45 to .9.
Routine, 8 N.AB. +12 to 15 Hyd. alternately.
3 to 4 courses with periods of rest from 4 to 12 wks., with
H.I. courses. W.R. every 3 mths. for 1 yr., every 6 mths.
2nd yr. after cessation of treatment; these yearly as long as
patient attends.
Gonorrhœa.—Female. Films (cultures in some cases) from
urethra, cervix and, if necessary, Bartholin's glands, on at
least 3 occasions, immediately after successive menstrual
periods treatment having ceased. Males. After cessation
of treatment and urethroscopy, patient put on alcohol for
3 wks., films, and in some cases, cultures are made from
urethral discharge, if any, from urinary threads, if any, and
from prostatic and vesicular secretions, after massage.
Date 7 /2 /23.
(Signed) KENNETH M. WALKER,
Medical Officer of the Treatment Centre,