[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1914* > 1915* H* TT ^ • Total* F. Total* 1. Total number of contorts in respect of whom Poinm 1 vciG received 5 156 111 19 156 175 9 Ho. of cases in (l) in v;hich attejmpts were made outside tb.G scope of the .■'■’ogulation to persuade the contact to be exaivined before the latter had been naj'acxl on s. second Form 1 Contacts found Contacts examined or 5 155 -110 19 152 171 already umeder treatment IBB 1B6 15 15B 117 '3. Ho. of those in (1) in respect of \7hom two or .more Forms 1 \.7Grc received - 15 15 n B1 26 1* No*of those in (5) vilio v:erc: - (a) Found (b) Fxamined after persuasion 15 15 o i>j 26 ' or already under treatment - 10 10 “1 -L 17 13 (c) Served with Form B (d) Pxarained after service 5 O ' 1 10 11 of Form B - - ]_ 5 1 (e ) Prosecuted f or fai liu?e: - (i) To attend for, <and s ub mi t to,: le d. i c a 1 examination B r\ cO 2 9 (ii) To submit to, and c 0nt inUG t r esec me nt 1 1 ii. 5 5 TliG nurabcr of notifications on Ilonas 1 of tho Hc(:ulation from the differont Vonoroal Diseases Clinics varies cnor-monsly. from one clinic tlac TvercGnts.jO of notifications was 16 per* cent* of tlic number of new venereal infections v/liilc from cinht clinics no notificationsv^liatsoever v/erc received. It irould apjoear that some Venereal Diseases Idcdic.al Officejcs are nahin,; much greater use of the Regulation as o. means of bringing; contacts under ensmination than others. Of the 175 contacts notified durinr; 191-5 it is _ _,, _ satisfactory to report that 81 per cent* attended (or v/cre already attending) at a Voncreo.1 Diseases Clinic, -after beinp advised to do so by a Social 7/or her. Propaganda* Arr-angemcnt s v/cre mo.de ■'Amth the Education for propagvojida pro rammGs to Riding Adiiiinistrativc- Area by means of colliery meetings, meetings of po.rents Central Council for Health be carried out in the V/est Cinema Sliov/s, foxtory -and .-'jid adults and A*R,P* personnel* T he t yp e G of me e t i ng s he 1 d vie re: - Cineroa Shov/s - V,D, fi3s.as and talks - G-encral Iloalth films. Parents V.D, films and talks on Sex in Life 'and Human Reproduction end toAks on problems of adolescence. 15.