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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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The hospitals to which the patients suffering from infectious diseases were admitted are named below
| Name of Hospital | No, of cases admitted | |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 1954 | |
| Plalstow Hospital, Samson Street, E.13 | 106 | 63 |
| Ilford Isolation Hospital, Chadwell Heath | 30 | 13 |
| Eastern Fever Hospital, Homerton, E.9 | 16 | 8 |
| Chingford Isolation Hospital, E.4 | 4 | - |
| Rush Green Hospital, Romford | 1 | - |
| Whipps Cross Hospital, Leyr,onstone, E.ll | 19 | 8 |
| Queen Elizabeth Hospital, E.l | 2 | - |
| St. Mary's Hospital for Women & Children, E.13 | - | 1 |
| South Lodge Hospital, N.21 | 1 | - |
| Wanstead Hospital, E.ll | 1 | - |
| East Ham Memorial Hospital, E.7 | 7 | 1 |
| Western Hospital, Fulham, S.W.6. | - | 1 |
| St. Clements Hospital, Bow, E.3 | - | 1 |
| Royal Free Hospital, W.C.1 | 1 | - |
| St. Andrew's Hospital, Devons Road, Bow, E.3 | - | 1 |
| St. Ann's General Hospital, St. Ann's Road, N.15 | 5 | 5 |
| Totals | 193 | 102 |
I would like to record the willing co-operation afforded me at all
times by the staffs of the Plaistow Hospital and ilford Isolation Hospital,
in the ready acceptance of cases of infectious illness, and the invaluable
help given me in the diagnosis of obscure conditions.
Cases summaries on discharge have been the invariable rule and on
occasion [???]discussion with the senior medical staffs has elucidated difficult
points in pathogenesis and epidemiology.