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Credit: [Report 1928] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Corresponding with the increase last year in tlie n\nnher of new patients suffering' from gonorrhoea there is a proportionate increase in those discharged cured after completing tlieir course of treatment. Tlie figure for those dis- charged after the cure of sypliilis remains much the same. The tests of cure for S3'philis are very stringent, and it is difficult to i)ersuade the patient to attend at intervals for two years after ceasing treatment, especially as her general health is usuallj' better than it has been for some time, and she does not realise the necessity for further attendance. There is a, pleasing decrease in tlie numher of those who ceased to attend witliout co'inpleting treatment. As the decrease chieflj- concerns patients suffer- ing from gonorrhoea it is specially satisfactory as it is this class of patient who is liable to spread infection if allowed to go without jiroper treatment. That the numher of defaulters is not more is due to the Lady Inquiry- Officer, who takes infinite trouble to follow up cases to tlieir homes and persuades them to attend the Treatment Centre. The drugs used were much the same as last year—Salvarsan compounds with Bismuth and Mercury being emploj-ed in the treatment of syphilis.” Comparison with the reports of other counties proves that the propoiiion of attendances of women to men at the Count\' Treatment Centre is greater in Monmouthsliire than in most other counties. This can be attributed to the work of the Inquiry Officer, Nurse E. M. Walters, who follows female patients (old and new) to their homes, and she invites them to undergo and persevere with treatment at the Centre. vShe also attends at tlie Treatment Centre on the days fixed for female patients, and this procedure has ni'oved to be a great encouragement to the women to visit the Centre regularly. The work accomplished hy her during the j'ear was as follows:— Number of visits paid in the Administrative County: 1928 1927 To new cases which came to her knowledge and which liad not undergone treatment 341 388 To old cases in which visits to the Treatment Centre had been discontinued before completion of treat- ment, also to old cases still under treatment 1657 1809 To members of Voluntary Agencies, District Nurses, etc. 245 293 Total 2243 2490 Since her appointment in duly, 1918, Nurse Walters has visited 3,861 new cases. The medical practitioners of the Connt_v ap])rove the scheme most cordiallj, and the majority of them send patients to Ihe Centre for treatment. Advantage is also taken of the facilities for tests at the County I/aboratonq and 520 specimens were examined for private practitioners during the j’ear 1923.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28861280_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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