Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services / [Ceylon].

  • Ceylon. Civil Medical Department.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services / [Ceylon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Venereal Diseases Clinic, General Hospital, Colombo,—This clinic takes place daily, except on Sundays, commencing at 2 p.m. On Mondays and Thursdays cases of syphilis, parangi, and gonorrhoea are treated; on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays cases of urethritis are microscopically examined and dark ground illumination of all venereal sera is done; on Fridays special treatments, such as prostatic massages, dilatation of strictures, and urethroscopic work, are carried out. All cases requiring indoor treatment are admitted to a ward in the General Hospital. The following table gives comparative figures of the cases treated at the clinic for the past three years: — Cases 1933. 1934. 1935. Syphilis 382 346 280 Soft sores 402 7 47 Gonorrhoea 812 572 392 Yaws — 14 13 Other diseases — 69 107 1,596 1.008 839 Port Venereal Clinic for Seamen.—This is a clinic held in a special room at the Port Surgeon’s office, established under the Brussels International Agreement, 1924. Forty-nine persons were given treatment free during the year; of these 25 cases were syphilis which received salvarsan treatment, 8 were soft chancre and 16 were gonorrhoea. The fact that Colombo is not a terminal port, but merely a port of call where most ships spend only a few hours, accounts for the com¬ paratively small number of sailors seeking treatment at the clinic. Most of the cases are diagnosed by clinical examination only, since there is usally insufficient time to arrange for serological or bacteriological examination at the Bacteriological Institute. Venereal Diseases Clinic at the Female Branch Hospital.—The number of per¬ sons treated in the clinic for the past three years were as follows: — Cases. 1933. 1934. 1935. Syphilis 349 363 178 Gonorrhoea 694 498 258 Y aws 11 1 4 Other diseases 125 370 596 1,179 1,232 1,036 These 1,036 persons paid 3,067 visits during 1935. The clinic is held on two evenings a week—Tuesdays and Fridays. Most of the eases attending the clinic are married women and many of them are cases of chronic gonorrhoeal infection. The existence of the clinic is well known among the hospital class of patients, who have no objection to injections or other forms of treatment. Venereal Diseases Clinic at the Kandy Dispensary.—This clinic is held on two evenings a week—Mondays aind Saturdays. The cases treated during the year were as follows : — Syphilis Gonorrhoea Yaws Other diseases 71 77 6 14 168 These 168 persons paid 445 visits during 1935. Besides the particulars given in respect of the four clinics, 6,149 in-patients (with 98 deaths) in the various hospitals and 18,939 out-patients at dispensaries and out-patients’ department of hospitals in the Island were treated for venereal diseases during the year as against 6,667, 88, and 26,160, respectively, in 1934.