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Venereal Cases treated on board A. M. D. Winchester, 1854.
118 Sent to Hospital
927 Out patients
Gonorrhoea
Syphilis
Septicaemia
1853 - 31st August, 1854.
His Excellency
Sir J. M. S. Winchester
Sir,
March 12, 1855.
I have the honor to place before Your Excellency a brief statement of the number of cases of venereal disease actually treated on board this ship during the year.
Last year, for further treatment of primary or secondary forms of the complaint. – I also obtained from McKeown, surgeon of the R. N. Hospital, a Copy of the Return for 1853.
Sir James Stirling
Rear Admiral &
Commander-in-Chief