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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TABLE 9.-VENERAL DISEASES.
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1930.
London | Middlesex | Essex | Surrey | Kent | Herts. | Bucks. | E. Ham | W. Ham | Croydon | Total | Other Places | Grand Total | |
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New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 3,527 | 413 | 233 | 165 | 110 | 41 | 17 | 35 | 117 | 13 | 4,671 | 554 | 5,225 |
Soft Chancre | 217 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 273 | 86 | 359 |
Gonorrhoea | 7,997 | 943 | 338 | 318 | 166 | 143 | 46 | 63 | 224 | 56 | 10,294 | 829 | 11,123 |
Not Venereal | 7,343 | 961 | 448 | 390 | 193 | 115 | 38 | 73 | 212 | 55 | 9,838 | 324 | 10,162 |
Total | 19,084 | 2,322 | 1,033 | 882 | 476 | 302 | 102 | 174 | 576 | 125 | 25,076 | 1,793 | 26,869 |
Total Attendances | 664,102 | 59,168 | 26,579 | 24,123 | 9,780 | 6,090 | 2,244 | 5,106 | 16,352 | 3,150 | 816,694 | 19,525 | 836,219 |
No. of "In-patient" days | 30,956 | 2,588 | 1,210 | 2,574 | 1,708 | 411 | 201 | 137 | 219 | 158 | 40,162 | 11,054 | 51,216 |
Salvarsan Substitutes, doses given | 36,081 | 4,479 | 2,679 | 1,889 | 944 | 371 | 319 | 591 | 1,583 | 227 | 49,163 | 2,002 | 51,165 |
Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||||
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 1,323 | 75 | 73 | 47 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 26 | 3 | 1,609 | 114 | 1,723 |
Gonococci | 53,658 | 3,758 | 2,734 | 1,946 | 1,305 | 712 | 103 | 544 | 1,417 | 351 | 66,528 | 1,512 | 68,040 |
Wassermann | 27,332 | 2,294 | 1,345 | 1,244 | 669 | 317 | 147 | 256 | 630 | 187 | 34,421 | 1,260 | 35,681 |
Others | 15,170 | 704 | 991 | 745 | 647 | 240 | 54 | 184 | 400 | 174 | 19,309 | 424 | 19,733 |
Total | 97,483 | 6,831 | 5,143 | 3,982 | 2,647 | 1,280 | 306 | 1,007 | 2,473 | 715 | 121,867 | 3,310 | 125,177 |
For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 51 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 54 | — | 54 |
Gonococci | 4,196 | 192 | 185 | 1,226 | 14 | 32 | 19 | 43 | 31 | 1,672 | 7,610 | 8 | 7,618 |
Wassermann | 16,274 | 803 | 819 | 865 | 56 | 100 | 145 | 108 | 166 | 271 | 19,607 | 396 | 20,003 |
Others | 4,420 | 106 | 257 | 378 | 16 | 24 | 16 | 22 | 33 | 254 | 5,526 | 108 | 5,634 |
Total | 24,941 | 1,102 | 1,261 | 2,470 | 86 | 156 | 181 | 173 | 230 | 2,197 | 32,797 | 512 | 33,309 |