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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

East Ham 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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Table: VENEREAL DISEASES.Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1925.

VENEREAL DISEASES.

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1925.

LondonMiddlesexEssexSurreyKentHerts.Bucks.E. HamW. HamCroydonTotalOther PlacesGrand Total
New Patients:—
Syphilis4,284375216152143563144120335,4544485,902
Soft Chancre109981132—55—21267279
Gonorrhoea8,60.56773362942038234861983510,55077111,312
Not Venerea6,508638339245152653597238708,3872938,680
Total19,5661,69989970250120510023256113824,6031,57926,182
Total Attendances539,35333,63315,14315,1447,9333,1671,3034,31410,0892,648632,67713,454646,131
No. of " In-patient" days65,9023,3422,8191,4713,3491,5891,1553851,2279081,33521,119102,454
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given38,1493,5751,7381,6211,01047121531892131948,2372,45950,696
Pathological Ex aminatio ns.
For or at Centre:—
Spirochaetes1,153506341855421,268621,330
Gonococci48,9232,0341,0701,2971,03734717843791031757,1501,65258,802
Wassermann25,0141,59793096058530412520749520930,4261,17731,603
Others11,9185722378012369071323911414,11021914,329
Total87,0084,2532,8433,0921,8597493796811,448642102,9543,110106,064
For Practitioners :—
Spirochaetes202_8__—_—_30_30
Gonococci2,386251140453356430156023,92253,927
Wassermann15,6362,0119555711014910017248046520,54017020,710
Others1,416472213218731221,650291,679
Total19,4582,3111,1171,164154621072034971,06926,14220426,346