Diseases soar with sex and the stressed City

AN upsurge in sexually transmitted diseases and drug and alcohol-related health problems among City workers has been blamed on the financial crisis.

One clinic has recorded a 20 per cent increase during the last 12 weeks in the number of patients with STDs such as chlamydia, herpes and gonorrhoea.

Doctors believe job cuts and looming lay-offs are causing recklessness among City workers.

Dr Sean Cummings, from the Freedom Health Clinic in Harley Street, said: "The fact that people are panicky means that they have resorted to tried and tested means of alleviating stress, and that means sex, drugs and alcohol."