[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, and Huntingdonshire County Councils, but patients are dealt with from other areas also. Any person is entitled to receive treatment free of charge, application to the County or District Medical Officers of Health. Afternoon and evening clinics are held weekly for both sexes, at separate hours, : md six beds are reser wed for in-patient treatment. Facilities are afforded fot inigation of cases of gonorrhoea between clinic days, and are mainly taken advantage of by male patients. The work done at the treatment centre during 1926 is summarised in the following tables:— Table I. Male. Female. Total. Under treatment on January 1st, 1926 54 38 92 Old cases readmitted ... 38 21 59 New patients during 1926 135 57 192 Total under treatment ... 227 116 343 Venereal Disease 213 110 323 Not Venereal Disease... 14 6 20 Left without completing treatment 21 20 41 Completed treatment but not final tests ... 30 24 54 Completed treatment and tests 66 17 83 Transferred to other Treatment Centres ... 7 3 10 Under treatment at end of year 89 46 135 Out-patient attendances: (a) On clinic days ... 1176 714 1890