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TABLE B.—continued. Table showing Number of Cases treated, etc. — continued.

TABLE C. Reply Form. —Venereal Diseases. (Confidential.) I, the undersigned registered medical practitioner, desire to advise the Committee on Venereal Diseases of the Board of Eealth that I had under my personal care on Saturday, 10th September, 1922,* cases of venereal disease, and of affections attributable to venereal disease, as under: — Number of cases. Male. Female. Total. 1. Cases of recent infection :— (ti.) Gonorrhoea (including gonorrhoea] ophthalmia) (b.) Soft chancre (c.) (Syphilis, primary and/or secondary 2. Cases of distant infection :— (a.) Chronic gonorrheal affections or disabilities directly attributable to gonorrhoea infection— e.g., stricture, gleet, arthritis, abscesses, salpingitis, &c. (b.) Congenital syphilis .. (c.) Tertiary syphilitic manifestations or disabilities directly attributable to syphilis infection :— (i.) Affecting nervous system — e.g., gumma, locomotor, G.P.1., &c. .. (ii.) Affecting ear, eye, &c. (special senses) — e.g., optic atrophy, &c. (iii.) Affecting respiratory system— e.g., syphilitic laryngitis, &c. (iv.) Affecting digestive system— e.g., syphilitic stricture of rectum, &c. (v.) Affecting circulatory system— e.g., syphilitic angina, aneurism, &c. (vi.) Affecting spleen (vii.) Affecting skin, bones, joints, muscles (viii.) Affecting genito-urinary system, including abortions, &c. XoTic.—No case should bo recorded under more than one of these headings. Total number of cases under my personal care My opinion is that venereal disease in this Dominion has [not] increased in a greater proportion than the population during the last five years. [Signature of medical practitioner.] Date of posting : Town where practising or name or } names of institutions concerned : ) • " Under my personal care on Saturday, 10th September, 1922," is to bo interpreted to include all patients Suffering from the conditions enumerated whom you are attending or have attended, and who yon believe in the event of requiring further attendance would call you in or consult you, in other words, bona Jide patients of your own. It is not intended that you are to enumerate only the patients actually seen by you on that date. Medical superintendents or medical officers in charge of institutions will regard all patients in or attending their institutions as under my personal care on Saturday, 16th September, 11)22," irrespective of whom the actual medical attendant may be. Please post this Reply Form as soon as possible after 10th September, 1922, and not later than 20th September, 1022. Additional copies of this form are obtainable from the Medical Officers of Health, or the Secretary of the Board of Health, P.O. Box 1146, Wellington.

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Dm lediu. Total foi r Years. Grand Totals. !0. 19S :i. l'ji j Totals aci to Sc raiding IX. 10! !0. I!): '21. n>: 12. 19! !2. Number of persons dealt with at or in connection with the out-patients' clinic; for the first time and found to be suffering from— Syphilis Chancroid Gonorrhoea No V.D. M. 54 F. 13 M. 55 f. 11 M. 12 F. 9 M. 381 19 428 125 F. 102 M. 281 39 837 215 v. 86 M. 159 22 446 86 F. 59 M. 821 80 1,711 426 F. 247 1,068 80 1,904 582 37 6 2 55 28 *9 2 46 1 "6 58 32 - 79 83 56 41 193 156 Totals 3,038 596 3,634 Total attendance of all persons at the outpatients' clinic who were suffering from — Spyhilis .. Chancroid Gonorrhoea No V.I). .. Aggregate number of inpatients' days of treatment given to persons suffering from— Syphilis Gonorrhoea 810 465 6 143 "2 505 814 21 84 67 1 432 638 1 115 63 4,865 216 20,105 366 1,503 520 136 5,256 133 33,583 562 1,647 1,630 258 3,050 103 17,114 218 948 1,017 108 13,171 452 70,802 1,146 4,098 3,107: 502 17,209 452 73,969 1,648 71 (i<; 55 169 335 106 166 20 28 59 1,930 3,550 35 293 2,499 5,168 150 327 1,120 2,157 9 210 5,549 10,875 194 836 5,743 11,711 Totals 101,995 8,797 110,792