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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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CENTRAL HOME.
(These figures are in respect of the period April—December, 1930, inclusive).
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sicl | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epilcptic | ||
| Admitted | 625 | 6 | 4 | 614 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 8 | _ | 1278 |
| Discharged | 624 | 4 | 4 | 558 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 5 | — | 1216 |
| Refused Admission | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Admitted by means of | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | - | ||||||
| Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | 190 | 221 | 2 | 413 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 186 | 169 | 1 | 356 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and District Med. Officer | 6 | 5 | - | 11 | ||||||
| M.O. H. | — | _ | _ | _ | ||||||
| Otherwise | 125 | 116 | 3 | 244 | ||||||
| Transferred from other institutions, | 128 | 120 | 7 | 255 | ||||||
| Med. Superintendent | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| No. of infectious cases | — | — | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Transferred to other institutions | 57 | 76 | 10 | 143 | ||||||
| Deaths | 351 | 327 | 1 | 679 | ||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 81/12/30 | 415 | 566 | 5 | 986 | ||||||