Synopsis of the final report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases / by Douglas White.

  • White, Douglas
Date:
1916
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Credit: Synopsis of the final report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases / by Douglas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SS Local Prisons (terms not exceeding two years) showed, T7-) ee) \O SIAN Te females. 1°65% of males and 1°98% of females were recognised as victims of V.D. The males suffered equally from S. and G.; in the females S. was twice as common as G. These, however, were only manifest cases; more- over, half of them all, both male and female, were dis- charged while still infective. Convict Prisons (three years and upward).- Of 1,775 convicts examined, 299, or 17°04%, presented signs of 5.; they were not examined by serum-test. Borstal Institutions (young prisoners of age 16-21). All inmates were examined specially for congenital S. Of 941, 153, or 16%, showed evidence of congenital 5., and there were five cases of acquired S. This suggests that the mental defects of some such prisoners are due to syphilis. ; Scots Prisons. Of 11,993 male prisoners 156, or 1°3%, and of 4,958 females 28, or 056%, were found suffering from V.D. Of these also more than half were discharged while still infective. Irish Prisons. Dublin figures (Mountjoy) show a per- centage of 2'7 for males and, 2°8 for females, of which rather less, but the figures are incomplete. As to prisons generally, the examination is not search- ing, and V.D. is apt to be overlooked, especially in short- term ‘prisoners. Serum tests are not made, and microscopic examination is not common; concealment is easy. The figures given are not regarded, except in the Borstal cases, as showing the true amount of V.D. in prisons. table showing the incidence of G.P.I., based on five years admission to the asylums. The figures show 5,352 men and 1,028 women. As the disease mainly occurs between the ages 25 and 54, it is of interest that 7°12°/99 Of the total male population of these ages, and 1°23°/o0 Of tthe female, has in five years suffered from G.P.1. In London, during the same period 12°9/oo of London males (25-54 age) and 1°9 per 10,000 females were affected. The proportion is less in the County Boroughs as a whole, 8°3 and 1°5°/oo0, and still less in the Administrative Counties (other than London), 5°2 and “O'%j502 “All cases “Of =G.F-1. are wertainly Fdue 0 syphilis; but this single disease is no measure of the prevalence of S. among lunatics. In the London asylums