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in modern methods of diagnosis and treatment. The County Council further coordinates
the work of hospitals, public health services and practitioners, and
undertakes publicity and propaganda work with regard to matters relating to venereal
disease.
Though the means for treatment are available, much educational work remains
to be done. Cases not infrequently come to the notice of the Department in which
patients recommended to one of these clinics discontinue treatment before they are
cured, thus running the gravest risk of disaster to themselves, of infecting their wife
or husband and of transmitting disease to their children.
The number of bacteriological examinations carried out on behalf of the Borough
Council in connection with the diagnosis of venereal disease during the past five
years is as follows:—
1926 26 1929 69
1927 66 1930 79
1928 78