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  • Title: Sexually transmitted diseases: extract from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security for the Year 1978.
    Journal: Br J Vener Dis; 1980 Jun; 56(3):178-81. PubMed ID: 6893565.
    Abstract:
    In England, a comparison of the number of newly reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases for the years ending June 30, 1977 and 1978 indicated that during the latter year there was an increase in the incidence of early and late syphilis, genital candidosis, genital herpes, simplex, and nonspecific genital infection and a slight decline in the incidence of gonorrhea. During the year ending June 30, 1978, early syphilis increased 5.4% among men and 11.8% among women, and the number of cases/100,000 population was 10.18 for men and 1.91 for women. The reported number of new cases of late syphilis increased 15.8% during that same year, and the number of new cases/100,000 was 4.32 for men 1.90 for women. Gonorrhea cases decreased by 2.5% among men and by 3.3% among women, and the number of new cases/100,000 was 160.55 for men and 89.23 for women. The number of new cases of chancroid increased slightly, and there were 0.11 cases /100,000 population. Nonspecific genital infections increased for the total population by 2.2%; however, the rate among women declined by 2.1% and among men increased by 3.4%. The number of new cases of herpes simplex/100,000 population was 22.50 for men and 12.25 for women. 4 tables provided information on 1) the number of new reported cases for the years ending in June 30, 1977 and 1978 and the incidence rates for 1974-78 for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid and 2) incidence rates for the years ending on June 1974-78 for other sexually transmitted diseases. During the year ending June 30, 1978, a total of 518,839 persons, representing a 2% increase over the previous year, presented at hospital clinics for venereal disease checkups. 5% of these individuals were noninfected. During 1978, progress was made in training more workers and expanding facilities for tracing individuals who had contact with persons known to have venereal disease. In addition, the genitourinary medical staff at facilities in England and Wales increased from 203-211 between 1977-78. 101 of these staff members were consultants. Consultants, according to the Special Advisory Committee in Genitourinary Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians should be members of the Royal College of Physicians and have 4 years of training at the senior registrar level. This requirement has been relaxed somewhat, however, due to recruitment difficulties. Requirement of male nurses is still inadedquate. In regard to progress in education and training personnel to work in the venereal disease area, a Department of Genitourinary Medicine is being established at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of London University. British physicians played an active role in several international conferences on sexually transmitted diseases in 1978, and the Department of Health and Social Security continued to provide funds for health professionals to visit veneral disease centers in other countries in order to learn about new techniques for diagnosing and treating veneral disease.
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