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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Public Assistance Nurse and Assistant Relieving Officer
Number of requisitions received for attendance of
nurse 52
Total attendances at homes by nurse 1458
Number of Maternity cases 28
Total visits to such cases 78
The Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service is available
for the whole of East Ham, except for a small area to the South
of King George V and Royal Albert Docks.
Dr. Brews, the District Medical Officer for this area (North
Woolwich), dealt with the following cases during 1935:—
Number of individual patients 37
Number of attendances at homes 344
Number of attendances at surgery 357
Total number of attendances 701
Number of occasions medicines supplied without
seeing patients 34
Number of recommendations for extra nourishment
4
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 | 25 |
| Soft Chancre | 2 |
| Gonorrhoea | 106 |
| Not Venereal | 96 |
| Total | 229 |
| Total attendances of all patients | 15231 |
| Number of in-patients during 1935 | 117 |
| A.B.C.—doses | 605 |