Table Showing Number of Cases Treated and Attendances at the Venereal-disease Clinics during the years 1920-21 and up to June, 1922.
| Auckland | Wellington | Christchurch | Dunedin | Total for Years | Totals according to Sex | Grand Totals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| Number of persons dealtwith at or in connectionwith the out-patients'clinic for the first timeand found to besuffering from-- Syphilis | 174 | 30 | 100 | 44 | 81 | 29 | 93 | 34 | 80 | 10 | 41 | 8 | 60 | 25 | 46 | 21 | 25 | 13 | 54 | 13 | 55 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 381 | 102 | 281 | 86 | 159 | 59 | 821 | 247 | 1,068 | |
| Chancroid | 10 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 39 | 22 | 80 | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gonorrhœa | 81 | 8 | 345 | 24 | 189 | 20 | 190 | 18 | 298 | 11 | 141 | 9 | 120 | 32 | 139 | 35 | 70 | 21 | 37 | 55 | 9 | 46 | 6 | 428 | 58 | 837 | 79 | 446 | 56 | 1,711 | 193 | 1,904 | ||
| No V.D. | 59 | 10 | 73 | 25 | 21 | 8 | 40 | 10 | 52 | 25 | 33 | 17 | 20 | 10 | 62 | 31 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 125 | 32 | 215 | 83 | 86 | 41 | 426 | 156 | 582 | ||
| Totals | 3,038 | 596 | 3,634 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total attendance of allpersons at theout-patients' clinic whowere suffering from-- Syphilis | 1,875 | 462 | 1,759 | 474 | 830 | 313 | 1,388 | 448 | 2,089 | 616 | 1,156 | 269 | 786 | 450 | 903 | 473 | 632 | 248 | 816 | 143 | 505 | 84 | 432 | 115 | 4,865 | 1,503 | 5,256 | 1,647 | 3,050 | 948 | 13,171 | 4,098 | 17,269 | |
| Chancroid | 100 | 72 | 37 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 110 | 45 | 37 | 216 | 133 | 103 | 452 | 452 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gonorrhœa | 4,702 | 95 | 9,232 | 141 | 3,384 | 172 | 13,436 | 180 | 19,369 | 520 | 10,853 | 423 | 2,132 | 245 | 3,968 | 902 | 2,239 | 339 | 465 | 814 | 67 | 638 | 63 | 20,105 | 520 | 33,583 | 1,630 | 17,114 | 1,017 | 70,802 | 3,167 | 73,969 | ||
| No V.D. | 134 | 26 | 227 | 35 | 53 | 17 | 40 | 10 | 89 | 35 | 68 | 35 | 186 | 98 | 215 | 187 | 96 | 52 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 366 | 136 | 562 | 258 | 218 | 108 | 1,146 | 502 | 1,648 | ||
| Aggregate number ofin-patients' days oftreatment given topersons suffering from-- Syphilis | 1,624 | 1,711 | 790 | 232 | 80 | 619 | 44 | 310 | 9 | 74 | 55 | 169 | 106 | 20 | 1,930 | 35 | 2,499 | 150 | 1,120 | 9 | 5,549 | 194 | 5,743 | |||||||||||
| Gonorrhœa | 3,024 | 77 | 4,098 | 1,998 | 460 | 216 | 725 | 161 | 221 | 157 | 66 | 335 | 166 | 28 | 59 | 3,550 | 293 | 5,168 | 327 | 2,157 | 216 | 10,875 | 836 | 11,711 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 101,995 | 8,797 | 110,792 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reply Form.—Venereal Diseases.
(Confidential.)
I, the undersigned registered medical practitioner, desire to advise the Committee on Venereal Diseases of the Board of Health that I had under my personal care on Saturday, 16th September, 1922,[A] cases of venereal disease, and of affections attributable to venereal disease, as under:—
Number Of Cases.
Male. Female. Total.
1. Cases of recent infection:—
(a.) Gonorrhœa (including gonorrhœal ophthalmia)
(b.) Soft chancre
(c.) Syphilis, primary and/or secondary
2. Cases of distant infection:—
(a.) Chronic gonorrhœal affections or disabilities
directly attributable to gonorrhœa 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.I., &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.
NOTE.—No case should be 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:
[A] "Under my personal care on Saturday, 16th September, 1922," is to be interpreted to include all patients suffering from the conditions enumerated whom you are attending or have attended, and who you believe in the event of requiring further attendance would call you in or consult you, in other words, bonâ fide patients of your own. It is not intended that you are to enumerate only the patients actually seen by you on that date.