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City of London 1925
[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. | Bucks. | Leicester. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Number of cases from each area dealt with during the year for the first time and found to be suffering from:— | ||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 144 | 3 | l | .... | l | .... | l | .... | .... | .... | .... | 150 |
| Soft chancre | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Gonorrhœa | 198 | 1 | .... | l | .... | l | l | .... | .... | .... | .... | 202 |
| Conditions other than venereal | 48 | .... | .... | .... | .... | 2 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 50 |
| Total | 390 | 4 | l | l | l | 3 | 2 | .... | .... | .... | .... | 402 |
| B. Total number of attendances of all patients residing in each area | 10,505 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | 10,541 |
| C. Aggregate number of "Inpatient days" of all patients residing in each area | 20 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 20 |
| D. Number of doses of Arsenobenzol compounds given in the:— | ||||||||||||
| 1. Out-patient Clinic | 1,774 | 1 | .... | 7 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 1,782 |
| 2. In-patient Dept. to patients residing in each area. | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| E. Give the names of Arsenobenzol compounds used in the treatment of syphilis and the usual initial and final doses. | Neo.- Salvarsan. Nov-Arsenobillon. Neo.-Kharsivan Stabilarsan. Silver Salvarsan. Sulfarsenol. Initial dose, Male, .6 to .9. Female, .6 to .75. | |||||||||||
| 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. | Usual course, 8 to 10 injections of Arsenical compounds, with 10 to 20 Mercury injections. 3 to 4 courses in the 1st yr., 2 to 3 courses in the 2nd yr., according to W.R. Hvd., Per. c Pot. Iod. between. 15 injections Iodine-Bismuth-Quinine, Trépol, Neo-Trépol, Muthanol, Luatol, Contralucsin, Mercurosal, Collosal Iodine in conjunction with or without Arsenical compounds. | |||||||||||
| G. State the nature of tests applied in deciding as to discharge of patients referred to in Item 5 on previous page. | ||||||||||||
| Gonorrhœa—Male. Urethroscopy. Cessation of treatment Alcohol, Films and cultures from urethal discharge, and from threads, if any, and from prostatic and vesicular secretions on 3 occasions at weekly intervals. Female. Films and sometimes cultures from cervix ant urethra (and from Bartholin's glands if necessary) after at least 3 successive menstrual periods | ||||||||||||
Date 20/1/26. (Signed) KENNETH M. WALKER,
Medical Officer of the Treatment Centre.