Sociological and Psychological Factors in Venereal Disease

27 years of uninterrupted contact tracing. The 'Tyneside Scheme'.

“…Holland and Russia seem to have been the first countries to make use of the social worker in the campaign against venereal disease (Fessler, 1946). A few clinics in London appointed social workers in the 1920s, but their main function appears to have been to help patients in their problems.…”

“…The authors of the eight papers cited above quoted only thirteen references, and none of them mentioned the article by Fessler (1946) who gave 25 references. They did not refer to the 'Tyneside Scheme', nor to the three papers on the Medico-Social Aspects of the Venereal Diseases by Macfarlane (1948a, b) and Macfarlane and Johns (1964).…”