| Year. | Total number of patients. | 3 per cent. for ven. cases. | ||
| 1850 | 19,615 | 588 | ||
| 1851 | 20,680 | 620 | ||
| 1852 | 21,941 | 658 | ||
| 1854 | 14,075 | 422 | ||
| 1855 | 12,378 | 371 | ||
| 1856 | 11,797 | 354 | ||
| 1857 | 10,895 | 327 |
The Eastern Dispensary, Ludlow Street, does not give any detailed report of the diseases treated, and the same approximation will be made as previously:
| Year. | Total number of patients. | 3 per cent. for ven. cases. | ||
| 1855 | 25,612 | 768 | ||
| 1856 | 21,017 | 630 |
To the Demilt Dispensary, Second Avenue, the same system of approximation will be applied:
| Year. | Total number of patients. | 3 per cent. for ven. cases. | ||
| 1852-3 | 2,197 | 66 | ||
| 1853-4 | 9,006 | 270 | ||
| 1854-5 | 14,034 | 421 | ||
| 1855-6 | 20,004 | 600 | ||
| 1856-7 | 20,684 | 620 | ||
| 1857-8 | 26,785 | 803 |
The Northwestern Dispensary, Eighth Avenue, subjected to the same rule gives
| Year. | Total number of patients. | 3 per cent. for ven. cases. | ||
| 1854 | 9,264 | 277 | ||
| 1855 | 11,581 | 347 | ||
| 1856 | 11,477 | 344 |
Cases of venereal disease are treated in the Clinical Lectures at the three medical colleges of New York City. From the New York University Medical College the following report of patients has been obtained. It is undoubtedly much too low an estimate.
| 1855 | 47 | |
| 1856 | 53 | |
| 1857 | 69 |
and assuming that the practice of the others is of the same extent, we have as the venereal cases treated in the three colleges: