Medico-social Aspects of the Undiminished Incidence of Urethritis in France.

Despite the advances of therapy and technical research, and despite modern improvements in social and economic conditions, venereal diseases are still to be reckoned with, and an important part of the world's population continues to be infected with them. In France and elsewhere, syphilis has been steadily increasing since 1954, gonococcal urethritis is becoming more frequent, non-gonococcal urethritis (N.G.U.) now studied together with the venereal diseases, is increasing to an alarming extent, and minor venereal infections such as balanitis and venereal warts are also seen more frequently. Our clinic comprises the largest hospital practice for urethritis in France, in the department of Prof. Kuss at the H6pital St. Louis in Paris, where the number of patients was 22,989 in 1962.