Survey of venereal disease treated by Manitoba physicians in 1972.

A personally conducted survey of 829 Manitoba physicians has been carried out in order to obtain data of practical value to future medical planning for the management of venereal disease. Two thirds of the physicians interviewed see and treat venereal disease in office practice, although only a limited number of cases are fully investigated. The annual number of cases of confirmed and unconfirmed disease in the province is estimated to be approximately 16,000. Notification of disease to the public health authorities is extremely limited and therefore epidemiological measures necessary for proper control are rarely activated. Organized medicine should develop an awareness of the responsibility which must be assumed in this situation by its individual members, responsibility which can rarely be handled alone.