[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    altb.oa.:.;li tlie total is , j- It will be noted th not so hlr^ coi-ipared with the previous 5c.ar there 01 new cases o± svphilis, in 1945. t L) hxariination of the individual returns for 19-5 fron the ■yenereal hisoases Clinic Hodical Officers shov/s that 'tliis increase io lioiceci to cases oi less than one ycair ^ s d,uration« The fi('''Uj‘’es for new casco of late and concenital syphilis are substantially t:ie sarx as in 1944. the number fij^urc is ^ew ^xnorrhoca infections show a considerable increase of non-venereal 142 per cent, over 'ind ho.s continued to mount. Tlie latter to be, at least in part t he t’l'i e 19 '1-1 f i i;,ur e , suit of the eoh-en uiseascs campaign of the past fev; years. and v/ould appear sive anti-venereal General Practitioner V.D. Service, under The follo'wing tabic shov/s this scheme during the year the number of nev/ s 1944 and 1945:- C^** O f'' cj ^ O O treated 1944. 1945. Cases under treat¬ ment at 1st I on. 4-4. New Casos. Casos trans¬ ferred to the General Practi¬ tioner . Total Attend - ■inces. Cases under t re at - raent at 1st Ian,45. New Cases Cases trans¬ ferred to the General Practi¬ tioner . r- Total Attend - ances, Syphi lis 22 35 13 1111 41 56 9 ' 1 i ■ 14-63 Gonorrhoea 4 32 4 ■ 352 6 31 r/ t_) 276 non-Venerea; anc’ un- • diagnosed conditions u 139 A 37 9 14- 97 /. 465 for :year 14 general practitioners approved There v/ere during the unaertakinc the diagnosis and troatiaent ol' venereal aiscascs u-nder the supervisioii of the County Venereal Diseases Officer, in distri C^'-■i’ rnn-hc-a in .-.A -i_ ^_ „ o ^ ra , ' Centre, districts situated more than 10 j-.iiles from a Special Treatment The service provides otherwise find it extremely cxaPiination and treatment,'^ The following table under Regulation 53B during facilities for patients vdio v/ould difficult, if not impossible, to obtain gives jjarticulars of cases dealt with the years 194-4 and 1945:- 12