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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 38 / 410 (page 36)… Disease— Incidence, 1938-1959 ... ... ... ... ••• 173 Congenital Syphilis, etc. ... ... ... ... 175 Venereal Disease in Seamen, etc. ... ... ... 176 Defaulters ... ... ... ... ••• 177 VII. Mental Services— Boarded-out Patients ... ... ... ••• ••• 179 Lunacy Certification ... ... ... ... ... IS 1 Certificatio...
- Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…onic Venereal Disease 41 59 114 Other Diseases, including Soft Sore, Septic Balanitis, etc. ... 778 129 941 Non-Venereal 1,668 341 2,016 Follow-up of Defaulters— With the rapid treatment of both acute syphilis and acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. E...
- Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…nd acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. Efforts have been made to obtain the attendance of defaulters by follow-up letters and by personal visits of the health visitors in the cases of females and the senior attendants in the case of males. During the...
- Found on image 180 / 410 (page 178)…e Unit most patients have received sufficient treatment to reduce the danger of spread of infection, Contact Tracing.—The contact tracing, as well as defaulter follow- up work, is carried out by the staff of the male ad hoc centres in respect of males and by the health visitors attached to the female centres...
- Found on image 272 / 410 (page 270)…or 74-00 per cent, last year. This year 10 (6-31 per cent.) of the samples failed both in count and coliform compared with 15 of 200 or 7-5 per cent. Defaulters were visited and their methods checked and advice given. Of the 163 informal samples taken, 123 were subjected to both chemical and bacteriological e...
- Found on image 322 / 410 (page 320)…ceedings against some 64 families in one of the housing schemes for failing to cleanse the common close or stairs leading to the houses. As usual the defaulters in this case were a small minority of the tenants but their actions or failure to act affects every one of the neighbours who may be living in the pr...
- Found on image 330 / 410 (page 328)…tions were issued to the authors of nuisances in terms of the statutes involved. Failure to comply necessitated the issue of 130 statutory notices to defaulters. Court action was taken in 12 instances, 11 of which were successful. The exception was a case involving the absence of a sanitary convenience in a sh...
- Found on image 337 / 410 (page 335)…hey were of a minor character and a verbal warning was all that was necessary to put matters right. It was, however, necessary to issue 20 notices to defaulters. The number of factories at present on the register can be seen in the following table. The large number of factories removed during the year is by re...
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