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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VENEREAL DISEASES.
The sane facilities are available as in recent years for the treatment of those diseases, and from the official tables supplied by the London County Council the following figures are abstracted:-
New Patients. | 1939. | 1938. |
---|---|---|
Syphilis | 13 | 18 |
Soft Chancre | 1 | |
Gonorrhoea | 61 | 84 |
Not venereal | 110 | 136 |
185 | 240 | |
1939. | 1938. | |
Total attendances of all patients | 4,716 | 11,020 |
Total number of in-patient days | 42 | 182. |
The decrease in attendances and in-patient days as compared
with the year 1938 is not due solely to the War and resulting
evacuation, but to a lessened incidence of disease.
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
1939. | 1938. | |
---|---|---|
For or at the Centres:- | ||
Spirochaetes | 2 | 43 |
Gonococci | 2,119 | 2,037 |
Wasserman | 370 | 464 |
Others | 839 | 992 |
Total: | 3,330 | 3,536 |
For practitioners:-
Spirochaetes | - | - |
Gonococci | 5 | 2 |
"Wasserman | 14 | 40 |
Others | 11 | 21 |
Total: | 30 | 63 |
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