[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For or.o'• attendance 7/=. nrr n.-uTior in nou >r.id and for >ach in-nationt IP./- i’or tho ??irst day and 10/- for oach subsequent day. Tho Agreement r/itJi tho Rprchostor University for tho o::i -niuation of pathological material has boon on tho sane linen m horotoforo- Pron October lot, 1918 to Uoptombor 30 th 1°19, 10r> non pr.tionta and 80 old patients attended tho Venereal Clinic. 80 of tho 105 non patients suffered fron syphilis, 45 from gonorrhoea. 5 fron ooft c'iancro, and PI fron diseases other than vo noroal. Tho number of attondancos nado by non patients uas 773. Fiftoon patients rocoivod in-eationt troatnont and romainod 302 days in tho Infirmary. 73 patients uoro treated nith Galyl and 273 dobob of this drug uero given. 30 aaraploo uoro rocorded an being examined for gonococci at tho Infirmary whilo 76 a armies uoro nont to th.o Ranchos ter University for tho Yfassormp.nn ro-action. P.ocontly, tho Hinistry of iioalth has nritton reporting on tho BChomo and asking that ono of the anproved Officers Ghould be responsible for tho evening Clinics and not tho Hooidont Medical Officer, and stating that the treatment for gonorrhoea requires modification, J3U1DIAPCI OF TUP VORK PERFOPJ.GOD AT TUTU ] iAIf CHESTER Po,thological Laboratory. Hinty-30vcn sanplo3 of blood uoro uont to tho Pathological Laboratory at llanohostor. It is rogrotablo that no samnios of corcbro-spinal fluid end no samples of tho products of conception in stillbirth and abortion uoro sont to the Laboratory. It is also noticoablo that no smears uoro sont for examination for snirochaoteo. 40 of tho 97 samples of blood uero positive 56 wore nogativo and 1 was not examined as insufficient material was sent. 7^ samples uoro sont by tho Infirmary, 15 by threo modical practitioners - the first of those sont ton, the second four, p.nd tho third one - and six samples vroro sGnt by the Tuborculosis Officer. l*o additional name uas added to tho list of 'oractitionors uho furnished nr.tisfactory ovidonco of competence in tho administration of Galvarsan. its substitutes and modifications. ^ ^