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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 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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148
SECTION VII.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
The scheme in operation in the Borough consists of the Clinics
held at the Croydon General Hospital. Males attend on Saturday
afternoons and Thursday evenings, women and children on Wednesday
afternoons.
The Clinic is conducted by Dr. P. W. Hamond, who is not
otherwise connected with the Health Department. Croydon is also
one of the participating authorities in the London County Council's
scheme, under which clinics for the treatment of venereal diseases
are provided at a large number of London Hospitals, and at resident
Hostels; the cost being apportioned among the ten participating
authorities in the scheme on a basis of user.

Table: Table LXXII. Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

Table LXXII. Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

1925.1926.1927.1928.192919301931.1932
New male patients116141145121101196263235a
few female patients Attendances, male136192160'5894171205241a
patients Attendances, female2713236026433502338I505049234691a
patients12301351141716322127302932712724a

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a Includes 125 new cases from outside areas, who made 2031 attendances.

Table: Attendances of Croydon Patients at various London Hospitals under the General Scheme.

Attendances of Croydon Patients at various London Hospitals under the General Scheme.

1924.1925.1926.1927.19281929,193919311932
New patients163138130132139I31125139119
Total attendances289926482767316030803089315023842835

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Of the 119 new patients in 1932, 12 had syphilis, 1 soft
chancre, 29 gonorrhoea, and 77 were not suffering from venereal
disease.