Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 20.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, 1930
Disease. | Cases. | Vision Unimpaired | Vision Impaired | Total blindness | Death | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Notified | Treated | ||||||
At home | Hospital | ||||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | *2 | — | — |
*1 Blind in right eye. |
CANCER.
The deaths classified to Cancer have slightly diminished as
compared with the previous year.
Circulars have been issued and advertisements inserted in the
local press giving advice as to early treatment of this scourge.
No action has been taken on the lines suggested by the
Ministry of Health regarding investigation into the causes of
Cancer, as the Health Committee decided, on my advice, that the
information available by co-operation of the medical practitioners
was unlikely to prove helpful.
TABLE 21.
Cancer Deaths, 1930.
Total deaths | 187 |
Males | 76 |
Females | 1ll |
Classification. | |
Number of deaths. | |
Cancer (no classification) | 16 |
Carcinoma | 163 |
Epithelioma | 3 |
Sarcoma | 5 |
Total | 187 |