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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
Croydon 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE IX.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Return relating to persons who were treated at the Croydon General Hospital Clinic, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
| 1923. | 1922. | 1921. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Number of persons dealt with at or in connection with the out patient Clinic for the first time and found to be suffering from : — | ||||||
| Syphilis and Gonorrhœa | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Syphilis | 23 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 48 | 31 |
| Soft Chancre | 1 | - | 4 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Gonotrhœa | 40 | 20 | 53 | 13 | 49 | 19 |
| Not suffering from venereal disease | 16 | 35 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 19 |
| 80 | 89 | 105 | 63 | 117 | 70 | |
| Number of persons discharged from the outpatient Clinic after completion of treatment for : — | ||||||
| Syphilis | 12 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Soft Chancre | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Gonorrhœa | 16 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| Conditions other than Venereal | 16 | 35 | 17 | 11 | - | - |
| 44 | 57 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 3 | |
| Number of persons who ceased to attend the out-patient Clinic without completing treatment or after completion of treatment but before final tests as to cure, and who were suffering from : — | ||||||
| Syphilis | 29 | 43 | 35 | 22 | 21 | 27 |
| Soft Chancre | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 |
| Gonorrhœa | 49 | 19 | 44 | 8 | 34 | 25 |
| Conditions other than Venereal | - | - | 3 | 9 | - | - |
| 79 | 62 | 84 | 39 | 59 | 53 | |
| Total attendances of all persons at the outpatient Clinic who were suffering from : — | ||||||
| Syphilis | 609 | 647 | 685 | 657 | 739 | 692 |
| Soft Chancre | 27 | - | 16 | - | 3 | 11 |
| Gonorrhœa | 1160 | 317 | 1683 | 173 | 1441 | 268 |
| Not suffering from venereal disease | 30 | 59 | 41 | 68 | 41 | 68 |
| 1826 | 1023 | 2425 | 898 | 2224 | 1039 | |
| Aggregate number of "in-patient days" of treatment given to persons suffering from:— | ||||||
| Syphilis | - | - | - | - | 32 | - |
| Gonorrhœa | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | 32 | - | |
| Number of persons treated with Salvarsan substitutes | 78 | 79 | 42 | 44 | 59 | 48 |
| Number of doses of Salvarsan substitutes given | 401 | 382 | 370 | |||
| Examinations of pathological material :— Specimens from persons attending at the Treatment Centre which were sent for examination to an independent laboratory :— | ||||||
| For detection of spirochaetes | - | - | - | |||
| ,, ,, gonococci | 100 | 139 | 162 | |||
| ,, Wassermann reaction | 187 | 266 | 250 | |||
| ,, Others | - | - | - | |||
| 287 | 405 | 412 | ||||