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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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67
Scarlet Fever.
Hospital report gives 336 admissions, whereas 337 cases received
hospital treatment. One case was treated in the L.C.C. Eastern
Hospital.

Table: Erysipelas.The number of notified cases of Erysipelas treated in hospitals was 25—

Erysipelas.

The number of notified cases of Erysipelas treated in hospitals was 25—

Borough Infectious Diseases Hospital11
Whipps Cross Hospital11
Eastern Hospital2
St. Bartholomew's Hospital1
25

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The diagnosis in one case admitted to the Borough Hospital was
not confirmed.
Enteric Fever.
One typhoid death not mentioned in hospital report was that of a
seaman who died in hospital at Hull. Inward death transfer notified
to East Ham.