Incidence of venereal diseases in the Netherlands.

Incidence of venereal diseases in the Netherlands.

VENEREAL diseases are not notifiable in the Netherlands, but the following data have been obtained from the annual reports of the V.D. clinics, from retrospective enquiries into the incidence of primary and secondary syphilis in general practice for the years 1959, 1963, and 1967, and from a prospective enquiry in dermatological practice for 1967 only. Until 1959-60 there were many V.D. clinics...

Venereal Diseases

Venereal Diseases.

For many years in each of the Canadian provinces, the law has required that any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from a venereal disease shall place himself under the care of a physician, and it has been the duty of that physician to report such cases to the Provincial Department of Health. It was not until 1944, however, that, as the result of a recommendation of the Dominion...

The Venereal Diseases

In the first edition of this book the author took special care ' to keep the practical problems to the foreThey have been so kept in this edition also. The essential additions are penicillin treatment, Reiter's syndrome and massive arsenotherapy. The book in spite of its small size contains many original observations. Random samples are : (1) Gonorrhoea in the male is usually contracted from a ...

Prophylaxis in the venereal diseases.

With the world -wide rise in both gonorrhea a nd syphilis in the face of the existence of s pecific curative m eas ures a nd of demonstra ted hi ghly successful public h ealth progra ms , a nd in spite of experi ence with and success in the u se of proph ylaxis , paI'ticula rly under conditions of social stress in two world wars, it see ms appropria te to a ssess again the ro le of prophylaxis ...