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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VENEREAL DISEASES.
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1927.
London | Middlesex | Essex | Surrey | Kent | Herts. | Bucks. | E. Ham | W. Ham | Croydon| | Total | Other Places | Grand Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 4,349 | 380 | 194 | 150 | 130 | 53 | 25 | 50 | 127 | 30 | 5,488 | 607 | 6,095 |
Soft Chancre | 123 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 8 | 3 | 150 | 60 | |
Gonorrhœa | 9,218 | 892 | 428 | 320 | 50 | 94 | 242 | 43 | 11,614 | 12,496 | |||
Not Venereal | 7,598 | 735 | 417 | 321 | 165 | 94 | 42 | 98 | 242 | 56 | 9,768 | 396 | 10,164 |
Total | 1,043 | 792 | 512 | 264 | 117 | 243 | 619 | 132 | 27,020 | 1,945 | 28,965 | ||
Total Attendances | (531,473 | 44,604 | 17,227 | 19,129 | 9,445 | 4,546 | 2,193 | 5,328 | 11,944 | 3,160 | 749,049 | 18,229 | 767,278 |
No. of "In-patient" days | 61,369 | 4,347 | 3,589 | 2,487 | 2,557 | 874 | 1,156 | 151 | 1,238 | 384 | 78,152 | 34,261 | 112,413 |
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given | 43,003 | 3,990 | 2,009 | 1,679 | 1,030 | 518 | 321 | 437 | 1,090 | 267 | 54,344 | 2,402 | 56,746 |
Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||||
For or at Centre :— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 897 | 69 | 8 | 5 | 10 | — | 1 | 78 | 1,096 | ||||
Gonococci | 44,503 | 2,334 | 2,095 | 977 | 975 | 381 | 189 | 485 | 241 | 53,366 | 2,300 | 55,666 | |
Wassermann | 27,265 | 1,756 | 912 | 917 | 579 | 252 | 154 | 213 | 523 | 158 | 32,729 | 1,285 | 34,014 |
Others | 13,417 | 771 | 303 | 903 | 375 | 124 | 32 | 84 | 140 | 16,330 | 406 | 16,736 | |
Total | 4,930 | 3,320 | 2,805 | 1,934 | 824 | 467 | 736 | 1,805 | 540 | 103,443 | 4,069 | 107,512 | |
For Practitioners :— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 30 | — | 7 | — | — | 1 | _ | — | — | 46 | — | 46 | |
Gonococci | 2,992 | 237 | 212 | 535 | 15 | 3 | 25 | 32 | 287 | 4,354 | 26 | 4,380 | |
Wassermann | 15,406 | 2,047 | 1,053 | 696 | 84 | 67 | 131 | 195 | 347 | 375 | 20,401 | 325 | 20,726 |
Others | 1,340 | 37 | 27 | 384 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 1,853 | 41 | 1,894 | |||
Total | 383 | 392 | 27,046 |