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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 1925

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

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Table: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.Venereal DiseasesSummary of work done by the Hospitals during the year 1925.

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.

Venereal Diseases

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the year 1925.

London.Middlesex.Essex.Surrey.Kent,HertsBucks.East Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total.Other Places.Grand Total.
New Patients :—
Syphilis4,284375216152143563144120335,4544485,902
Soft Chancre169981132..55..21267279
Gonorrhœa8,6256773362942038234861983510,55077111,321
Not Venereal6,508638339245152653597238708,3872938,680
Total19,5661,69989970250120510023256113824,6031,57926,182
Total attendances539,35333,63315,14315,1447,9333,1671,30314,31410,0392,648632,67713,454646,131
No. of In-patient days65,9023,3422,8191,4713,3491,5891,1553851,2279681,33521,119102,454
Salvarsan Subs. doses38,1493,5751,7381,5211,01047121531892131948,2372,45950,696
Pathological Examinations.
For or at Centres:—
Spirochaetes1.153506341855421 268621.330
Gonococci48,9232,0341.6701,2971,03734717843791031757,1501,65258,802
Wasserman25,0141,59793096058530412520749520930,4261,17731,603
Others11,9185722378012369071323911414,11021914,329
Total87,0084,2532,8433,0921,8597493796811,448642102,9543,110106,064
For Practitioners:—
Spirochaetes202..8............30..30
Goncocci2,386251140453356430156023,92253,927
Wasserman15,6362,0119555711014910017248046520,54017020,710
Others1,416472213218731221,650291,679
Total19,4582,3111,117l,164154621072034971,06926 1422C426 346