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East Ham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Social Welfare Domiciliary Medical Service.
The scheme and amended provisions were described in my
reports for 1934 and 1945.
TABLE 6.
SOCIAL WELFARE DOMICILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE.
Statistical Return for the Year Ending 31/12/47.
| No. of Individual Patients | No. of Attendances at Homes. | No. of Attendances at Surgery. | Total No. of Attendances. | No. of occasions Medicines supplied without seeing Patients. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,028 | 2,322 | 5,752 | 8,074 | 295 |
Venereal Diseases.
The facilities available for the treatment of these diseases are the same as in recent years and from the official tables supplied by the London County Council Centres the following figures are abstracted:—
| New Patients. | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syphilis | 22 | 21 | 19 |
| Soft Chancre | 1 | - | 2 |
| Gonorrhoea | 43 | 63 | 40 |
| Not Venereal | 133 | 225 | 168 |
| Total | 199 | 309 | 229 |
| Total attendances | 2,726 | 3,251 | 2,411 |
Pathological Examinations.
| For, or at the Centres:— | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Spirochaetes | - |
| Gonococci | 685 |
| Wassermann | 697 |
| Others | 1,189 |
| Total | 2,571 |