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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 1928

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

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Table: Venereal Diseases (L.C.C. Scheme).Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1928.

Venereal Diseases (L.C.C. Scheme).

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1928.

London.Middlesex.Essex.Surrey.Kent.Herts.BucksEast Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total.Other Places.Grand Total.
New Patients :—
Syphilis3,679382187145118463726139244,7834875,270
Soft Chancre167115433519837235
Gonorrhoea7,92187434729317311449732194510,10878810,896
Not venereal6,913814366331199824993246709,1634329,595
Total18,6802,08190577349324213519560913924,2521,74425,996
Totalattendances620,58349,65820,60420,26010,0344,9892,5074,83711,4983,080748,05015,485763,535
No. of in-patient days40,4152,1922,7141,1991,86895650213461514850,74314,36365,106
Salvarsan Subs, doses40,9274,4021,8311,5021,1685264454411,22535152,8181,73454,552
Pathological Examinations.
For or at Centres :—
Spirochaetes859721519922517...1,000511,051
Gonococci51,6212,9772,2081,8311 3235172494491,13644762,7582,31865,076
Wassermann24,9101,77586994260628517520149718930,4491,68732,136
Others7,32446622438219774592053808,8792689,147
Total84,7145,2903,3163,1742,1358784856751,703716103,0864,324107,410
For Practitioners:—
Spirochaetes3116...1............2...50...50
Gonococci4,2562021361,37620171034453026,39876,405
Wassermann16,4562,0301,155747916715018529826321,44229321,735
Others1,060229471072615184551,516791,595
Total21,8032,4771,3382,2311379917822335057029,40637929.785