London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
West Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
This page requires JavaScript
CENTRAL HOME.
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | ||
| Admitted | 875 | 10 | 13 | 984 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1906 |
| Discharged | 822 | 10 | 12 | 1025 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1893 |
| Refused Admission | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Admitted by means of Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | 326 | ||||||
| 140 | 186 | — | ||||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 410 | 471 | 1 | 882 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and .District Med. Officer | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| iM.O.H. | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Otherwise | 107 | 125 | 2 | 234 | ||||||
| Transferred from other institutions, | 242 | 211 | 1 | 454 | ||||||
| Med. Superintendent | — | — | — | |||||||
| No. of infe tious cases | 7 | 2 | 16 | 25 | ||||||
| Transferred to other institutions | 105 | 353 | 4 | 462 | ||||||
| Deaths | 500 | 456 | 1 | 957 | ||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 2/1/32 | 464 | 462 | 4 | 930 | ||||||
| Total number of Able-bodied in the Home on 2/1/32 | 472 | 356 | 1 | 829 | ||||||
| No. of Vacant Beds if any on 2 /1 / 32 | 16 | 15 | — | 31 | ||||||