Prostitution in Sheffield.

Prostitution in Sheffield.

Prostitution in Sheffield, a city with over half a million population, has been reviewed in its legal, social work, and medical aspects. The years studied were 1960-73. The medical studies were confined to the years 1968-72. Prosecutions for soliciting increased steadily during the study period. The trend was more marked locally than nationally and was associated both with increased police acti...

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Bejel in Sheffield.

Immigration into the United Kingdom has increased the possibility of encountering interesting variants of disease in the differential diagnosis of positive serological tests for syphilis (STS). Laird (1955) was the first to point out that many West Indians with positive routine STS had had yaws, usually in childhood. Several had evidence of typical old periostitis in the long bones. Like many c...

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Clinically active yaws in Sheffield.

In a recent annual report, the Chief Medical Officer stated that 405 cases of yaws were diagnosed in venereal diseases clinics in England and Wales during 1960 (Ministry of Health, 1962). Laird (1955), first to point out the arrival of the disease in Great Britain, drew attention to the difficulty in differentiating the condition from syphilis in the absence of clinical signs of active disease....