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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 1937
[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 | 45 |
| Total attendances at homes by nurse | 2071 |
| Number of Maternity cases | 271 |
| Total visits to such cases | 468 |
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 1937:—
| Number of individual patients | 63 |
| Number of attendances at homes | 220 |
| Number of attendances at surgery | 285 |
| Total number of attendances | 505 |
| Number of occasions medicines supplied without seeing patients | 15 |
| Number of recommendations for extra nourishment | 31 |
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 | 13 |
| Soft Chancre | 2 |
| Gonorrhoea | 93 |
| Not Venereal | 123 |
| Total | 231 |
| Total attendances of all patients | 13,770 |
| Number of in-patient days during 1937 | 110 |