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Venereal Diseases
Returns received from the Treatment Centre at Oldchurch
Hospital showed that new attendances again increased over the
previous year as follows:-

The above figures include persons attending the Centre
who reside in other areas. Subtracting non-Havering residents and
adding returns relating to Havering residents received from other
Treatment Centres, the statistics for Havering are as follows:-
1970 1969
(a) Syphilis 10 6
(b) Gonorrhoea 79 60
(c) Other conditions 750 595
Total: 839 662
During the last five years the number of persons attending
the Oldchurch Treatment Centre has doubled. In these permissive
days it is probable that promiscuity has increased considerably
but the attendances could also partly be due to more publicity
being given to the need for a check up if risks have been taken
and to the readiness of the modern generation to discuss and
seek advice more readily over these matters. This is probably
borne out by the fact that 347 persons who presumably had been
been at risk, attended for check up but were found to require no
treatment within the Centre. Whilst the number of patients has
doubled in the five year period the incidence of syphilis and
gonorrhoea has not increased to the same extent. In 1966 13.7%
of those attending were found to be suffering from either syphilis
or gonorrhoea compared with 11.8% in 1970.
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