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

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of today's venereologists to the 'Tyneside Scheme', which seems to have been largely forgotten outside Northumbria. Basically this was a local authority programme of education, social study, and contact tracing. It was inaugurated as an experiment in 1943, was found to be successful, and has been continued to the present day.