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 West Ham]
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Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1931.
London. | Middlesex. | Essex. | Surrey. | Kent. | Herts. | Bucks | East Ham. | West Ham. | Croydon. | Total. | Other Places. | Grand Total. | |
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New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 3,158 | 412 | 168 | 166 | 92 | 58 | 19 | 49 | 73 | 24 | 4,219 | 311 | 4,530 |
Soft Chancre | 235 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 288 | 50 | 338 | |
Gonorrhoea | 7,052 | 881 | 446 | 301 | 150 | 110 | 51 | 104 | 195 | 28 | 9,318 | 655 | 9,973 |
Not venereal | 7,860 | 1,079 | 473 | 468 | 237 | 86 | 42 | 112 | 236 | 86 | 10,679 | 427 | 11,106 |
Total | 18,305 | 2,377 | 1,108 | 940 | 482 | 257 | 112 | 268 | 516 | 139 | 24,504 | 1,443 | 25,947 |
Total attendances | 736,311 | 62,044 | 37,879 | 26,261 | 9,409 | 6,824 | 2,326 | 8,234 | 21,154 | 2,384 | 912,826 | 17,522 | 930,348 |
No. of in-patient days | 32,940 | 3,618 | 2,062 | 2,012 | 1,602 | 937 | 276 | 569 | 712 | 380 | 45,108 | 11,433 | 56,541 |
Salvarsan Subs. doses | 45,535 | 5,565 | 3,933 | 2,008 | 1,230 | 744 | 284 | 960 | 1,980 | 260 | 62,499 | 1,856 | 64,355 |
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 1,528 | 123 | 136 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 33 | 73 | 5 | 1,961 | 64 | 2,025 |
Gonococci | 64,682 | 5,120 | 5,416 | 2,668 | 1,456 | 838 | 222 | 1,050 | 2,808 | 372 | 84,632 | 2,113 | 86,745 |
Wassermann | 30,234 | 2,888 | 1,901 | 1,558 | 657 | 420 | 194 | 282 | 781 | 236 | 39,151 | 1,299 | 40,450 |
Others | 22,313 | 872 | 3,211 | 1,011 | 575 | 171 | 95 | 889 | 1,543 | 216 | 30,896 | 976 | 31,872 |
Total | 118,757 | 9,003 | 10,664 | 5,267 | 2,706 | 1,443 | 512 | 2,254 | 5,205 | 829 | 156,640 | 4,452 | 161,092 |
For Practitioners | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 88 | 1 | ... | ••• | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 89 | ... | 89 |
Gonococci | 4,329 | 130 | 187 | 251 | 22 | 53 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 2579 | 7,576 | 8 | 7,584 |
Wassermann | 17,670 | 774 | 727 | 884 | 89 | 54 | 52 | 34 | 5 | 326 | 20,615 | 374 | 20,989 |
Others | 5,338 | 97 | 545 | 395 | 33 | 41 | 9 | 30 | 3 | 293 | 6,784 | 52 | 6,836 |
Total | 27,425 | 1,002 | 1,459 | 1,530 | 144 | 148 | 78 | 68 | 12 | 3,198 | 35,064 | 434 | 35,498 |