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East Ham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Kitchen Techniques are vested mostly in women notoriously resistant to change, and young persons
dismiss the idea of personal hygiene as something too remote to matter, especially in view of th6 lack
or hand washing In, the toilets of many of our schools.
VENEREAL DISEASES
1J)e following statistics have been abstracted from copies of form V. D. (R), which have been received from the Hospitals named and total figures for 1964 and
| Patients Dealt With for the First Time During the Year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 1967 | |||||||
| Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | Total | Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | Total | |
| Whltechapel Clinic, London Hospital | 3 | 16 | 122 | 140 | 3 | 21 | 103 | 127 |
| St. Thomas' Hospital | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | |
| Akbert Dock Hospital | - | 8 | 36 | 44 | - | 4 | 30 | 34 |
| Queen Mary's Hospital, E.15 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 29 | |
| Totals | 4 | 26 | 191 | 221 | 4 | 28 | 163 | 196 |
| Totals for 1954 | 7 | 19 | 183 | |||||
| Totals for 1956 | 6 | 26 | 194 | |||||
CHILDREN'S ACT - NURSERY AND SCATTERED HOMES.
The statistics for the two years are appended:-
| 1956 | 1967 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Average number in homes throughout the year | 91 | |
| 2. No. chargeable to East Ham on let January | 96 | 97 |
| 3. No. chargeable to East Ham on 31st December | 92 | |
| 4. Average weekly admissions | 3 | 1.4 |
| 5. Average weekly discharges |
During the year 1956 the withdrawal from our Children's Homes of children from other Local Authorities
was completed, the last remaining Essex child being dlshcarged on 4.8.68 and the last children from West
Ham on 3.11.56.
PUBLIC MORTUARY
Following the demolition of the old war damaged buildings, a new mortuary was erected on the site
in the High Street South and was opened for the reception of bodies on 17th October, 1956.
The building was designed and erected by the Borough Engineer and consists of chapel, with adjacent
waiting and viewing room, refrigerator chamber, post mortem room and offices for pathologist and mortuary
attendant. Refrigerator accommodation is provided for a maximum of nine bodies.
In addition to the reception of the bodies of people dying in East Ham, arrangements have been made
for bodies to be received from the adjoining boroughs of Barking, Dagenham and Ilford, payment being
made by these authorities on a per capita basis.