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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

West Ham 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.Venereal Diseases.Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the year1923.

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.

Venereal Diseases.

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the year1923.

London.Middlesex.Essex.Surrey.Kent.Herts.Bucks.East Ham.West Ham.CroydonTotal.Other places.Grand Total.
New Patients:—
Syphilis5,198429232153135733846208536,5655637,128
Soft Chancre22315113344..418..3123315
Gonorrhœa8,63373235624618482491352816410,76280111,563
Not Venereal4,904458226191109542375348586,4461986,644
Total18,9581,63482562343221311026085517524,0851,56525,650
Total attendances453,85633,53412,22812,1337,5562,4431,3363,7279,7442.816539,37316,136555,509
No. of In-patient days67,6803,6622,8904,5312,3608661,2474691,39628085,38121,281106,662
Salvarsan Sals, doses40,7323,5341,5451,4251,0114631903671,17940650,8521,14051,992
Pathological Examinations.
For or at Centre:
Spirochaetes61661101035..517272933762
Gonococci22,7951,6278576003291285636972711927,60742028,027
Wasserman24,6731,71183787347023913120272926430,12980830,937
Others8,49028121160115138492320479,91114710,058
Total56,5743,6801,9152,0849534102365991,49343268,3761,40869,784
For Practitioners:
Spirochaetes544..111..........70..70
Gonococci3,300160100512184244582033414,886984,984
Wasserman15,810466716541166587113322827018,45921018,669
Others531282217157211162555680
Total19,6956588381,081366897719243261224,04036324,403