[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -10- ... .1 6. VENEREAL DISEASES PUNIC, ROYAL EAST SUSSEX HOSPITAL, The number of new local cases in 1944 were syphilis - 5 cases compared with'9 in 1943, gonorrhoea 1 12 cases compared wi th IT Tih 1943. !'\ ■ This- Vd'i strict has definitely not shared in the wartime' increase in venereal diseases to which•considerable public attention’Has,been .given fromthe' point of view of treatment and preventivemeasures. This is shewn clearly in the figures given below:-i: ' ' < *’ Year Syphilis Gonorrhoea 1938 ' ■ - 8 15' 1939 10 33 1940 • ■ ■ 9W 6 1941 3 ■ 6 1942 7 19 1943 9 11 1944 5 . 12 Average in war years syhpilis' 7, Gonorrhoea 12. 1934 - 38 average annualtincidence syphilis 9 cases . ‘ . * * M ' !f ; • * •7 * * * 11 gonorrhoea 28 cases This is satisfactory in view of*the Ministry of Health's widely publicised information about a considerable national increase in the war-time figures of venereal diseases. In accordance with thjs recommendation of the Minis try of Health the attention of the general public has been drawn by posters, pamphlets, personal instruction and lectures on the whole matter of venereal-diseases.and to the facilities for treatment available locally. Notif'ioa'tion's* received under Regulation 35B (-' Form 1 - 10 notificationsall relating to females. Form 2 - No. notifications., ,j ’ ... Form 1 relates to;a.person suspected ofepausing one infection Form B relates to a persorySusp'eo ted of causing nore than one ■ *' infection.- ■: . :- The Sister of the Venereal Diseases Clinic acts as Social Worker and' Almoner on the' line's suggested by the Ministry of Health. If the persons named in Form One are not., already attending for treatmen-tySister endeavours to. make contact and to get them, to the venereal Diseases Clinic. 7. Tuberculosis ' ' (a) Register ■ ;‘v • ; At the' end of 1944 the tuberculosis register contained 622 names. — • ^ . /- . . * . * • 1. jl Males 281, Females 214, suffering, from pulmonary tuberculosis. Males, 50, Females 77, suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis.