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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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The following- table sets out the nature of the cases removed, as stated on ambulance removal forms:—
| Abdominal Trouble | 17 | Indoor accidents | 28 |
| Abscess | 3 | Insanity | 1 |
| Accidents (street, etc.) | 496 | Internal Trouble | 38 |
| Adenitis | 1 | Intestinal Obstruction | 2 |
| Alleged Lunatics | 2 | Jaundice | 2 |
| Appendicitis | 89 | Kidney Trouble | 5 |
| Arthritis, Acute, etc. | 2 | Laryngitis | 1 |
| Assault | 9 | Liver Trouble | 1 |
| Asthma | 3 | Loss of Memory | 2 |
| Bladder Trouble | 4 | Lumbago | 1 |
| Brain Trouble | 1 | Maternity Cases | 81 |
| Bronchitis | 2 | Mastoid | 2 |
| Burns | 14 | Measles | 1 |
| Cancer | 4 | Meningitis | 5 |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 1 | Murder (attempted) | 1 |
| Chest Trouble | 4 | Nephritis | 3 |
| Chicken Pox | 1 | Nerves | 2 |
| Choking | 1 | Nervous Debility | 1 |
| Collapse | 66 | Observation at Hospital | 5 |
| Compression of Windpipe | 1 | Obstruction | 1 |
| Congestion of Lungs | 1 | Operations, various | 100 |
| Constipation | 1 | Orthopaedic Treatment | 3 |
| Convulsions | 1 | Paralysis | 4 |
| Delusions | 1 | Peritonitis | 2 |
| Diabetes | 1 | Phlebitis | 1 |
| Diabetic Coma | 1 | Pleurisy | 9 |
| Dislocated Hip, etc. | .*> | Pneumonia | 40 |
| Dog Bite | 1 | Poisoning, accidental, etc. | 1 |
| Dysentery | 1 | Potts Disease | 3 |
| Empyema | 1 | Pyelitis | 1 |
| Epilepsy | 2 | Retention of Urine | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | Rheumatic Fever | 2 |
| Eye Trouble | 1 | REeumatic Joint | 2 |
| Faintness after Operation | 1 | Rheumatism | 2 |
| Fits | 83 | Rheumatoid Arthritis | 2 |
| Call Stones | 3 | Septicaemia | 1 |
| Gangrene | 4 | Septic, mouth, etc. | 4 |
| Gastric Trouble | 11 | Shock | 12 |
| Gastric Ulcers | 2 | Sleepy Sickness | 1 |
| Gastro Enteritis | 1 | Smallpox (only 1 case) | 3 |
| Haemorrhage | 10 | Spinal Trouble | 1 |
| Heart | 35 | Stabbing- | 2 |
| Hemiplegia | 1 | Stricture | 2 |
| Hernia | 4 | Stroke | 3 |
| Hip, Diseased, etc. | 2 | Suicide, and attempted Suicide | 32 |
| Hysteria | 4 | ||
| IllnesS, in street, etc. | 37 | Throat Trouble | 1 |