[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(d) (e) if) Adults. Children. Total. M. F. M. F. M. F. Number lost sight of or left area : Pulmonary Number of deaths certified 1 2 1 2 as primarily due to Tub- erculosis : Pulmonary 5 4 5 4 Non-Pulmonary 2 2 Number under treatment at end of year : Pulmonary 17 10 3 1 20 21 N on-Pulmonary 3 1 3 1 6 VENEREAL DISEASES, A tremendous amount of damage to health has been caused in the past through these diseases. The following information is taken from the Report of the Royal Commiss- ion :—Gonorrhoea is the commonest cause, both of absolute and relative sterility in women, probably 50 per cent of all causes. General Paralysis of the Insane which is due to Syphilis, costs the community £90,000 a year and other forms of Insanity due to Syphilis another £60,000. Fifteen per cent of the male admissions to Asylums of large cities in Great Britian are due to General Paralysis of the Insane; Locomotor Ataxia is caused by Syphilis. More than one-half of all cases of blindness among children are the result of Veneral Diseases in the parents. Syphilis is perhaps the commonest cause of miscarriage, sometimes the child is still-born, or it survives for a few months or years of misery. Cases of Genera] Paralysis have been admitted to the Mid-Wales Mental Hospital from Radnorshire. From the information I have given in regard to still-births from 1922 onwards, there can be no doubt about the existence of Syphilis among the general population. Cases of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis especially the former occur from time to time among the resident popula- tion, and the additional population during the visiting season at Llandrindod Wells and other places. Prevention.—It is most important that these diseases should be prevented, and on this account that young people should be taught the dangers attending them. Courses of Lectures were arranged in November, 1921 and in the same month in 1925. The first course was held at Llandrindod Wells, Knighton and Presteigne and given to men only. The lectures were arranged by the National Council of Social Hygiene and were well attended, 300 and 150 being pre- sent respectively at Llandrindod and Knighton.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28874791_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
