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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The following table refers to this scheme :—
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1920.
London | Middlesex | Essex | Surrey | Kent | Herts | Bucks | E. Ham | W. Ham | Croydon | Total | |
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New Patients:— Syphilis | 7,917 | 704 | 392 | 285 | 206 | 89 | 58 | 121 | 324 | 80 | 10,176 |
Soft Chancre | 570 | 26 | 19 | 12 | 21 | — | 2 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 683 |
Gonorrhoea | 10,127 | 872 | 443 | 293 | 182 | 87 | 53 | 164 | 363 | 71 | 12,655 |
Not Venereal | 4,998 | 534 | 237 | 165 | 113 | 39 | 32 | 72 | 229 | 58 | 6,477 |
Total | 23,612 | 2,136 | 1,091 | 755 | 522 | 215 | 145 | 361 | 942 | 212 | 29,991 |
Total Attendances | 365,478 | 34,011 | 12,386 | 12,190 | 7,282 | 2,436 | 1,946 | 3,434 | 10,278 | 2,480 | 451,921 |
No. of " In-patient" days | 54,529 | 1,846 | 2,924 | 1,900 | 3,505 | 1,324 | 1,209 | 332 | 963 | 405 | 68,937 |
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given | 51,266 | 4,635 | 2,164 | 2,666 | 1,565 | 643 | 603 | 603 | 1,662 | 552 | 66,359 |
Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||
For or at Centre Spirochaetes | 1,384 | 191 | 31 | 63 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 13 | 90 | 8 | 1,827 |
Gonococci | 17,745 | 1,694 | 1,231 | 639 | 375 | 188 | 73 | 497 | 1,143 | 204 | 23,789 |
Wassermann | 24,768 | 1,657 | 989 | 934 | 541 | 202 | 129 | 241 | 696 | 199 | 30,356 |
Others | 809 | 42 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 909 |
Total | 44,706 | 3,584 | 2,263 | 1,642 | 954 | 406 | 225 | 755 | 1,934 | 412 | 56,881 |
For Practitioners Spirochaetes | 26 | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 29 |
Gonococci | 1,611 | 149 | 113 | 57 | 3 | 12 | — | 16 | 11 | 55 | 2,027 |
Wassermann | 9,513 | 537 | 750 | 411 | 67 | 32 | 22 | 136 | 268 | 138 | 11,874 |
Others | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 84 |
Total | 11,234 | 686 | 864 | 470 | 70 | 44 | 22 | 152 | 279 | 193 | 14,014 |