[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1925
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    3° TREATMENT OF VENEREAL DISEASES. The scheme, which emprises all Public Health Local Auth- orities, burghal and landward, within the counties of Fife and Kin- ross, continues on the lines set forth in previous reports under administration of the Joint Committee. There are three Treatment Centres convenient to residents in the areas of the two counties served in so far as it is practicable co arrange this, viz., The Public Health Dispensary, Market Street, Dunfermline; The Dispensary, Dunnikier Road, Kirkcaldy; and at Dundee, where males attend at Fleuchar Street, and females at the Royal Infirmary. The Dispensary, Kirkcaldy, under fhe medical superintendence of Dr MTntosh, Medical Officer of Health, is administered by the Town Council on behalf of Fife and Kinross Venereal Diseases Joint Committee. No change has been found necessary in the administrative arrangements, the hours of clinics and of treatment during the past year. The number of patients reporting for examination and treat- ment at Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy during the year have diminished. Attendances from the Eastern Area of the County of Fife at Dundee have increased. Inquirv was made during the year with a view to furnishing to the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Secretary for Scotland any evidence within the knowledge of the Medical Officers of the Treatment Centres on the subject of criminal assault on children. In the later months of the year arrangements were made by the Department on behalf of the British Social Hygiene Council for public lectures, with the exhibition of cinematograph films, illus- trative of the dangers of venereal diseases, at Inverkeithing, Buck- haven, Methil, Kelty, Cardenden, Leven, and Cupar. Eip-ht lectures in all were arranged, the total attendance being 4.450. The largest attendance was that at Cardenden, the audience (both sexes) num- bering approximately 1,150. In addition, Dr MTntosh arranged a lecture at Kirkcaldy, which was largely attended, and Dr Averilh Medical Officer, Dundee Centre, lectured at Tayport. An endeavour will be made to secure similar lectures in 1926, ns experience assures that the information must prove advantageous