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 1928.
London | Middlesex | Essex | Surrey | Kent | Herts. | Bucks. | E. Ham | W. Ham | Croydon | Total | Other Places | Grand Total | |
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New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 3,679 | 382 | 187 | 145 | 118 | 46 | 37 | 26 | 139 | 24 | 4,783 | 487 | 5,270 |
Soft Chancre | 167 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | – | – | 3 | 5 | – | 198 | 37 | 235 |
Gonorrhoea | 7,921 | 874 | 347 | 293 | 173 | 114 | 49 | 73 | 219 | 45 | 10,108 | 788 | 10,896 |
Not Venereal | 6,913 | 814 | 366 | 331 | 199 | 82 | 49 | 93 | 246 | 70 | 9,163 | 432 | 9,595 |
Total | 18,680 | 2,081 | 905 | 773 | 493 | 242 | 135 | 195 | 609 | 139 | 24,252 | 1,744 | 25,996 |
Total Attendances | 620,583 | 49,658 | 20,604 | 20,260 | 10,034 | 4,989 | 2,507 | 4,837 | 11,498 | 3,080 | 748,050 | 15,485 | 763,535 |
No. of " In-patient" days | 40,415 | 2,192 | 2,714 | 1,199 | 1,868 | 956 | 502 | 134 | 615 | 148 | 50,743 | 14,363 | 65,106 |
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given | 40,927 | 4,402 | 1,831 | 1,502 | 1,168 | 526 | 445 | 441 | 1,225 | 351 | 52,818 | 1,734 | 54,552 |
Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||||
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 859 | 72 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 17 | – | 1,000 | 51 | 1,051 |
Gonococci | 51,621 | 2,977 | 2.208 | 1,831 | 1,823 | 517 | 249 | 449 | 1,136 | 447 | 62,758 | 2,318 | 65,076 |
Wasserraann | 24,910 | 1,775 | 869 | 942 | 606 | 285 | 175 | 201 | 497 | 189 | 30,449 | 1,687 | 32,136 |
Others | 7,324 | 466 | 224 | 382 | 197 | 74 | 59 | 20 | 53 | 80 | 8,879 | 268 | 9,147 |
Total | 84.714 | 5,290 | 3,316 | 3,174 | 2,135 | 878 | 485 | 675 | 1,703 | 716 | 103,086 | 4,324 | 107,410 |
For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 31 | 16 | – | 1 | –_ | – | – | – | 2 | –_ | 50 | – | 50 |
Gonococci | 4,256 | 202 | 136 | 1,376 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 34 | 45 | 302 | 6,398 | 7 | 6,405 |
Wassermann | 16,456 | 2,030 | 1,155 | 747 | 91 | 67 | 150 | 185 | 298 | 263 | 21,442 | 293 | 21,735 |
Others | 1,060 | 229 | 47 | 107 | 26 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1,516 | 79 | 1,595 |
Total | 21,803 | 2,477 | 1,338 | 2,231 | 137 | 99 | 178 | 223 | 350 | 570 | 29,406 | 379 | 29,785 |