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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Tower Hamlets 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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VENEREAL DISEASE
Annual returns received from venereal disease clinics at the London Hospital;
Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich; Albert Dock Hospital, Woolwich,and the Middlesex
Hospital, show that new cases attending these hospitals during the year were as follows:-

Table: AREAS OF RESIDENCE OF NEW PATIENTS TREATED:-AT THE WHITECHAPEL CLINIC DURING THE PERIOD APRIL - DECEMBER:-

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OF NEW PATIENTS TREATED:-

AT THE WHITECHAPEL CLINIC DURING THE PERIOD APRIL - DECEMBER:-

AreaSyphilisGonorrhoeaOther ConditionsTotal
Tower Hamlets6654615802192
Other London Boroughs7462925993302
Other Areas15105691811
155128048706305
AT DREADNOUGHT SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR:
Tower Hamlets051722
Other London Boroughs477397478
Other Areas3384484601
371668981101
AT ALBERT DOCK HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR
Tower Hamlets021315
Other London Boroughs322115140
Other Areas - U.K. & Eire.949411469
Elsewhere423100127
1696639751
AT MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR:
Tower Hamlets243036
Other London Boroughs172104443265542
Other Areas2023611351391
194128454916969

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Two welfare officers appointed by the Council work from the Whitechapel Clinic under
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