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 1929.
London | Middlesex | Essex | Surrey | Kent | Herts. | Bucks. | E. Ham | W. Ham | Croydon | Total | Other Places | Grand Total | |
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New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 3.280 | 380 | 224 | 154 | 105 | 43 | 23 | 57 | 119 | 22 | 4,407 | 524 | 4,931 |
Soft Chancre | 210 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 5 | 2 | 236 | 44 | 280 |
Gonorrhoea | 7,755 | 1,010 | 310 | 311 | 165 | 148 | 35 | 74 | 244 | 47 | 10,099 | 675 | 10,774 |
Not Venereal | 6,493 | 661 | 355 | 316 | 186 | 88 | 41 | 73 | 207 | 60 | 8,480 | 321 | 8,801 |
Total | 17,738 | 2,052 | 895 | 788 | 457 | 281 | 99 | 206 | 575 | 131 | 23,222 | 1,504 | 24,786 |
Total Attendances | 616,399 | 51,877 | 22,233 | 20,196 | 9,579 | 6,271 | 2,489 | 4,806 | 15,930 | 3,089 | 752,869 | 16,003 | 768,872 |
No. of "In-patient" days | 32,487 | 2,154 | 1,469 | 2,004 | 823 | 908 | 168 | 93 | 252 | 71 | 40,429 | 11,091 | 51,520 |
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given | 35,333 | 3,881 | 2,164 | 1,607 | 1,052 | 404 | 450 | 417 | 1,261 | 300 | 46,929 | 1,800 | 48,729 |
Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||||
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 855 | 70 | 28 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 1 | 1,020 | 67 | 1,087 |
Gonococci | 53,4.17 | 3,870 | 2,765 | 1,999 | 1,395 | 642 | 200 | 528 | 1,435 | 484 | 66,765 | 1,312 | 68,077 |
Wassermann | 24.270 | 1,869 | 1,004 | 1,004 | 600 | 269 | 156 | 206 | 484 | 218 | 30,080 | 875 | 30,955 |
Others | 11,522 | 650 | 441 | 656 | 534 | 147 | 61 | 72 | 143 | 221 | 14,447 | 274 | 14,721 |
Total | 90,094 | 6,459 | 4,238 | 3,678 | 2,544 | 1,063 | 418 | 811 | 2,083 | 924 | 112,312 | 2,528 | 114,840 |
For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 45 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 51 | 1 | 52 |
Gonococci | 4.292 | 199 | 191 | 2,139 | 12 | 26 | 10 | 43 | 39 | 491 | 7,442 | 71 | 7,513 |
Wassermann | 15,879 | 1,708 | 1,152 | 787 | 101 | 79 | 136 | 175 | 248 | 313 | 20,578 | 407 | 20,985 |
Others | 3,188 | 77 | 205 | 257 | 52 | 29 | 24 | 4 | 12 | 128 | 3,976 | 79 | 4,055 |
Total | 23,404 | 1,987 | 1,549 | 3,183 | 165 | 134 | 170 | 223 | 300 | 932 | 32,047 | 558 | 32,605 |