A manual of venereal diseases / by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps ; introduction by Alfred Keogh ; [prepared by] C.H. Melville [and others].

Date:
1907
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Credit: A manual of venereal diseases / by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps ; introduction by Alfred Keogh ; [prepared by] C.H. Melville [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    United Kingdom, from 1880 to 1905 inclusive. The invaliding due to gonorrhoea is so small, never having in any one year in the period imder review attained- to '2 per 1,000, that its variations are not in my opinion of sufficient instructive value to merit their being graphically represented, the figures only therefore are given for this item. Taking the numbers constantly sick, it will be seen that both syphiHs and gonorrhoea tended to increase during the earHer years of the quarter century with which we are concerned, up till 1884, in the case of the former disease, and up till 1886 in the case of the latter. From the above dates we have a steady and continuous fall in the average numbers constantly sick from both diseases, the fall being more marked and more rapid, as the antecedent rise was also more marked, in the case of syphiUs than in that of gonorrhoea. Thus while syphiHs in 1884, when at its greatest height, accounted for a daily inefficiency of over 13 per 1,000, gonorrhoea never attained to a higher figure than 7'05 per 1,000, in 1886. On the other hand in 1900 when both diseases had fallen to their lowest figure, between 3 and 4 per 1,000, syphilis occupied a lower place, by -14 per 1,000, than the other member of the group. The fall in the number of men
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