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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Dr. Brews, the District Medical Officer for this area (North
Woolwich), dealt with the following cases during 1934
Number of individual patients 40
Number of attendances at homes 406
Number of attendances at surgery 424
Total number of attendances 830
Number of occasions medicines supplied
without seeing patients 22
Number of recommendations for extra
nourishment 4
Venereal Diseases.
The same facilities were available as in recent years for the
treatment of these diseases, and from the official tables supplied
by the London County Council the following figures are
abstracted:—
New Patients.
Syphilis 41
Soft Chancre 1
Gonorrhoea 90
Not Venereal 98
Total 230
Total attendances of all patients 12,674
Number of in-patients during 1934 871
Salvarsan substitutes—doses 822
Pathological Examinations.
For or at the Centres—
Spirochaetes 4
Gonococci 1,945
Wassermann 410
Others 1,956
Total 4,315