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to discontinue his employment or occupation on or before the date specified in the notice,
such date to be not less than seven days after the date of service of the notice.
Provision is made for the right of appeal by any person who feels himself aggrieved by
the requirement of the Local Authority and the Court may make such order in the matter
as may seem equitable, and may award costs. The Court also has power, with the consent
of the appellant, to direct that he be examined by a registered medical practitioner nominated
by them. The provisions of Section 308 of the Public Health Act, 1875 (which relates to
compensation for damages sustained by reason of the exercise of the powers of the Act)
apply to any person who is affected by these Regulations.
The Regulations contain the proviso that a dairy does not include a place in which
milk is sold for consumption on the premises only. It will be seen that this omission places
outside the scope of the Regulations numbers of restaurants, tea rooms, etc., and it is not
easy to appreciate why such places should have been specifically exempted from a piece of
legislative enactment of such importance.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
The following is a brief summary of the work carried out at the Special Treatment
Centre for Venereal Diseases during the year 1925:—
At the beginning of the year 383 males and 145 females were registered on the books
as being under treatment or observation, which compares with 256 males and 98 females at
the beginning of the previous year. Of these patients, 238 males and 100 females were
under treatment for syphilis and 145 males and 45 females for gonorrhoea.
New patients admitted totalled 402 as compared with 417 in the previous year, and
505 in 1923 and 583 in 1922. 72 males and 11 females suffering from syphilis discharged
themselves before completing the first course, and 42 males and 21 females after completing
the first course, but before completion of treatment. 47 males and 20 females completed
treatment, but failed to submit themselves to final test; 3 males and 1 female were transferred
to other centres, whilst 5 males and 1 female were discharged after completion of
treatment and observation.
In the case of gonorrhoea, 141 males and 35 females, out of the total of 165 and 37 of
the respective sexes coming under treatment during the year for the first time, discharged
themselves before completion of the first course of treatment.
The total number of attendances of all persons at the clinic was 10,541, which total is
made up as follows :—
Syphilis. Soft Chancre. Gonorrhoea. Non-Venereal Conditions. Total Attendances.
Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female.
4,003 1,886 — — 4,129 453 61 9 8,193 2,348
A few beds are provided at the Centre for in-patient treatment and the number of
days of such treatment totalled : males, 20; and females, 0.
In the laboratories associated with the Centre 5,835 specimens were examined, 37 for
the detection of spirochetes, 915 for gonococci, and 4,883 examinations for the Wassermann
reaction.

Included in the above total were *3,671 examinations for the Wassermann reaction at
the request of general practitioners.
Nineteen specimens were submitted by general practitioners for examination for gonococci.
No specimens were submitted by general practitioners for examination for spirochetes.
* Includes tests made for St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board.