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East Ham 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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VENEREAL DISEASES.
The same facilities are 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.
1940 1930.
Syphilis 10 13
Soft Chancre Nil 1
Gonorrhoea 47 61
Not venereal 70 110
Total 127 185
Total attendances of all
patients 2,105 4,716
Total number of in-patient
days 25 42
The decrease in attendances and in-patient days as compared
with the year 1939 is not due solely to the War and resulting
evacuation, but to a lessened incidence of disease.
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
1940. 1939.
For or at the Centres;-
Spirochaetes 8 2
Gonocooci 816 2,119
Wasserman 204 370
Others 376 839
Total; 1,404 3,330
For practitioners:-
Spirochaetes Nil
Gonococci 1 5
Wasserman 10 14
Others 4 11
Totals 15 30
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