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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Diseases Hospital and the Town Hall Annexe Laboratory, was as
follows:-
Number. Positive. Negative.
Town Hall Annexe 285
Infectious Diseases
Hospital 382
667
2
36
38
283
346
629
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The two Town Ambulances which formerly operated from the Fire
Station, were handed over to the A.R.P. Ambulance Section on the
outbreak of war and. are now available" at the Ambulance Depot (Napier
Road) Grangewood 3419.
Two Ambulances, in ??? used for the removal of
infectious cases.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE DOMICILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE. Statistical Return for the Year ending 31.12.41.
| Number of attendances at homes. | Number of attendances at Surgery. | Total Number of attendances. | Number of occasions medicines supplied without seeing patients, |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,277 | 6,041 | 7,318 | 398 |
| Number of applications to Medical Officer of Health for Hospital treatment. | 3 | ||
| Number of requisitions received for . attendance of nurse. | 12 | ||
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. | 1941 | 1940 |
|---|---|---|
| Syphilis | 17 | 10 |
| Soft Chancre | Nil | Nil |
| Gonorrhoea | 46 | 47 |
| Not venereal | 62 | 70 |
| Totals | 125 | 127 |
| Total attendances of all patients | 1,716 | 2,105 |
| Total number of in-patient days | Nil | 23 |
| PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. | 1941 | 1940 |
| For or at the Centress- | ||
| Spirochaetes | 4 | 8. |
| Gonocooci | 697 | 816 |
| Wassermann | 369 | 204 |
| Others | 192 | 376 |
| Total: | 1,262 | 1,404 |
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