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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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117
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 I.Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

Table I.

Attendances at the Croydon Clinic.

1925.1926.19271928.19291930.1951.1932.1933.1934.
patients116141145121101I96263235242297 a
New female patients15619216015894171205241214232 a
Attendances, male Patients2713236026433502358150504923469145785858a
Attendances, female patients1230135114171632212730293271272426773962a
a Includes 56 new cases and 3161 total attendances by patients from outside areas.
Attendances of Croydon Patients at various London Hospitals under the General Scheme.
1925.1926.1927.1928.1929.1930.1931.1932.1933.1934.
New patients138130132139131125139119134103
attendances2648276731603080308931502384283524072222

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Of the 103 new patients in 1934, 7 had syphilis, 28 gonorrhoea,
and 68 were not suffering from venereal disease.