Venereal Diseases in the West African Colonies

Venereal diseases in the West African colonies.

This cannot be computed readily, as it varies so greatly in different areas. For example, gonorrhoea is exceedingly common in the coastal region, especially in the cities such as Lagos and Accra, but in the rural areas, it is much less common, though in the arid northern territories, especially in such areas as Kano, its incidence is relatively high. Trade routes, both the old caravan routes an...

Venereal diseases in the British colonies.

The problem of venereal disease in the colonial territories is one of considerable magnitude and of some complexity. This is readily understandable if we consider the vast extent of the colonial empire, scattered throughout the five continents and composed of many peoples at different levels of development-some living in comparative isolation and others in ever closer association with alien rac...

Extra-urethritic Cases in an African Venereal Diseases Hospital.

It has beetn said that we treat " les malades " and not " les maladies". The unit of Medicine is indeed the patient, but the patient is the resultant of many forces and, if we cannot clearly discern these, we fail our patieftt. In advanced communities, the.ranks of many of the more potent causes of ill health have been so thinned that the singled-out raiders are clearly identified as this disea...

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...