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West Ham 1925

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

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Greenwich, most of these specimens being submitted by private
Practitioners in the Borough.
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, will shortly open a
Pathological Department, fully equipped with the most up-todate
apparatus. The Laboratory will be under the charge of a
highly skilled Pathologist, and should prove a great asset to
all concerned.
CASES OF SICKNESS
VISITED AND INVESTIGATED BY THE WOMEN
SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING 1925.
Measles 1,636
Chicken Pox 1,589
Whooping Cough 542
Mumps 566
Tonsillitis 472
Other cases 2,601
7,406
RESEARCH COMMITTEE.
Phis Committee is composed of the whole of the Medical
Staff of the Borough Council, Education Committee, Poor LawAuthority,
and of certain of the staff of the Hospitals in the
Borough", together with several local Medical Practitioners.
Any findings of the Committee which are considered relevant
are placed before the Council's Public Health Committee for
their consideration.