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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the year 1926.
| London. | Middlesex. | Essex. | Surrey. | Kent, | Herts. | Bucks. | East Ham. | West Ham. | Croydon. | Total. | Other Places. | Grand Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 4,181 | 335 | 177 | 129 | 115 | 28 | 35 | 39 | 131 | 23 | 5,193 | 545 | 5,738 |
| Soft Chancre | 197 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | .. | 235 | 68 | 303 |
| Gonorrhoea | 8,581 | 821 | 419 | 318 | 180 | 87 | 45 | 104 | 223 | 56 | 10,834 | 849 | 11,683 |
| Not Venereal | 6 733 | 609 | 364 | 293 | 177 | 76 | 43 | 84 | 234 | 51 | 8,664 | 324 | 8,988 |
| Total | 19.692 | 1,773 | 963 | 744 | 479 | 193 | 124 | 229 | 599 | 130 | 24,926 | 1,786 | 26,712 |
| Total attendances | 569.938 | 38.744 | 15,007 | 17,826 | 7,883 | 3,578 | 1,748 | 4,608 | 9 990 | 2,767 | 672.089 | 14,986 | 687,076 |
| No. of In-patient days | 58,469 | 3,383 | 2,743 | 1 989 | 3 780 | 1,502 | 1,408 | 779 | 1,355 | 330 | 75.738 | 25.997 | 101,735 |
| Salvarsan Subs, doses | 37 325 | 3 791 | 1.693 | 1,510 | 894 | 385 | 333 | 326 | 1,053 | 218 | 47,528 | 1,787 | 49,315 |
| Pathological Examinations. | |||||||||||||
| For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
| Spiiochaetes | 755 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | .. | 1 | 18 | 1 | 830 | 85 | 915 |
| Gonococci | 44,703 | 2,193 | 1.765 | 941 | 1,040 | 286 | 113 | 527 | 1,009 | 248 | 52.S25 | 1.638 | 54.463 |
| Wassermann | 24,621 | 1.674 | 996 | 877 | 537 | 249 | 139 | 185 | 491 | 164 | 29,933 | 1,294 | 31.227 |
| Others | 11 145 | 746 | 291 | 879 | 292 | 50 | 85 | 24 | 32 | 129 | 13.673 | 265 | 13 938 |
| Total | 81,224 | 4,647 " | 3,054 | 2,705 | 1,875 | 590 | 337 | 737 | 1,550 | 542 | 97,261 | 3,282 | 100,543 |
| For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
| Spirochaetes | 19 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 34 | 34 | |||||||
| Gonococci | 3,187 | 266 | 162 | 734 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 353 | 4 794 | 18 | 4,812 |
| Wassermann | 16.021 | 1,504 | 932 | 587 | 109 | 77 | 103 | 183 | 495 | 438 | 20,449 | 258 | 20.707 |
| Others | 1,433 | 31 | 15 | 433 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1,962 | 50 | 2,012 |
| Total | 20.660 | 1.808 | 1,109 | 1.761 | 154 | 100 | 133 | 199 | 516 | 799 | 27 239 | 326 | 27.566 |