½M V.D. patients
Venereal diseases are so common in Britain that a new patient seeks help at a clinic every two minutes — 500,000 new cases a year, the British Medical Association says. Twenty-five years ago the number of V.D. cases annually in Britain was 27.412. according to the Ministry of Health. The 8.M.A., representing the country’s 27,000 doctors, gave a warning in a booklet that antibiotics were no longer a cure-all and that many women would be unable to bear children as a result of gonorrhoea. — London.
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