Epidemiological Studies on Recent Male Gonorrhoea

Abstract

Epidemiological studies were made on the male patients with gonorrhoea in the departments of urology, Tokyo metropolitan Taito hospital and Jikei university hospital since 1965 through 1982, during 18 years.
The male patients with gonorrhoea tended to increase since 1979 in both hospitals, and the number of the cases at metropolitan Taito hospital was about eight times as many as that in 1978 and four times at Jikei university hospital, in 1982.
The striking increases of infected patients from employees in Japanese Torukoburo were very remarkable since 1979, and the patients infected from non-prostitute women gradually increased too.
In past four years, the majorities (about 75%) of the patients were ages of twenties and thirties, and the patients in twenties tended to increase year by year.