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audience—there were from 50 to 60 persons present—and at its conclusion
the lecturer was asked a number of questions.
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: —
1927 66 1930 79
1928 78 1931 80
1929 69