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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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26
Number of occasions medicines supplied without
seeing patients 25
Number of recommendations for extra nourishment
10
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 20
Soft Chancre 2
Gonorrhoea 97
Not Venereal 125
Total 244
Total attendances of all patients 14,614
Number of in-patient days during 1936 245
There were fewer cases of specific disease in comparison
with the previous year, and a larger attendance of non-venereal
cases.
The total attendances decreased.
Pathological Examinations.
For or at the Centres—
Spirochaetes 28
Gonococci 2648
Wassermann 409
Others 801
Total 3886