[Report 1931] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1931
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    VENEREAL DISEASES. The following is a summary of the scheme of the County Council for the prevention and treatment of these diseases : — The Treatment Centre for the Administrative County is at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. The days and hours of the sessions are : — MALES.—Tuesdays at 4.30 p.m. Wednesdays at 2 p.m. Thursdays (old cases only) at 4 p.m. Fridays at 6 p.m. FEMALES.—Mondays at 2 p.m. Thursdays at 2 p.m. Facilities for the irrigation of cases of gonorrhoea are also available. Dr. P. C. P. Ingram is the Medical Officer in charge of the Centre for men, and Dr. Mary Gordon, Assistant Medical Officer under the County Council, attends the women s sessions, and this arrangement came into force on the 28th September, 1925. The bacteriological examinations in connection with the Centre are con- ducted at the County Laboratory by the County Pathologist and Bacteriologist. Laboratory facilities for private practitioners are also provided, and outfits from the Laboratory are sent to them when required. The medical profession in the County has been circularised with the details of the scheme, and a propaganda compaign is periodically conducted by advertisements in the local newspapers, posters on public hoardings, in public and railway station urinals, and every winter by separate public lectures for men and for women. In necessitous cases the County Council provides rail fares for patients attending the Treatment Centre, which amounted to £240 13s. 3d. in the year 1 Qx I There is every indication that the scheme is sufficient to meet the needs of the Gounty. The reports of the Medical Officers irr charge of the Treatment Centres are as follows: — A.—DR. P. C. P. INGRAM. 4fi7ft R'''®,'931 the total number of attendances of patients- s owed an increase of over 500 on the number recorded for the
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