Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Venereal Diseases (L.C.C. Scheme).
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1932.
London. | Middlesex. | Essex. | Surrey. | Kent. | Herts. | Bucks | East Ham. | West Ham. | Croydon. | Total. | Other Places. | Grand Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 3,410 | 440 | 169 | 160 | 100 | 50 | 16 | 47 | 87 | 12 | 4,491 | 450 | 4,941 |
Soft Chancre | 113 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 153 | 34 | 187 |
Gonorrhoea | 7,906 | 1,032 | 542 | 367 | 178 | 96 | 40 | 95 | 209 | 29 | 10,494 | 728 | 11,222 |
Not venereal | 8,234 | 1,099 | 559 | 527 | 206 | 121 | 50 | 98 | 189 | 77 | 11,160 | 442 | 11,602 |
Total | 19,663 | 2,584 | 1,278 | 1,057 | 487 | 269 | 107 | 242 | 492 | 119 | 26,298 | 1,654 | 27,952 |
Total attendances | 772,839 | 69,760 | 44,667 | 26,660 | 12,657 | 6.340 | 2,504 | 8,151 | 19,640 | 2,835 | 966,053 | 17,868 | 983,921 |
No. of in-patient days | 34,533 | 2,778 | 1,824 | 2,217 | 1,043 | 694 | 193 | 159 | 352 | 284 | 44,077 | 9,946 | 54,023 |
Salvarsan Subs. doses | 46,370 | 6,091 | 3,505 | 2,405 | 1,131 | 684 | 211 | 673 | 1,468 | 216 | 62,754 | 2,182 | 64,936 |
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 2,514 | 104 | 135 | 80 | 27 | 31 | 8 | 21 | 48 | 11 | 2,985 | 103 | 3,088 |
Gonococci | 75,493 | 6,464 | 5,906 | 4,442 | 1,885 | 1,118 | 372 | 776 | 1,741 | 487 | 98,687 | 2,371 | 101,038 |
Wassermann | 30,956 | 3,075 | 2,024 | 1,785 | 717 | 502 | 189 | 400 | 749 | 237 | 40,634 | 1,332 | 41,966 |
Others | 33,620 | 2,130 | 7,004 | 1,092 | 653 | 283 | 137 | 1,174 | 2,740 | 165 | 48,998 | 1,247 | 50,245 |
Total | 142,583 | 11,773 | 15,069 | 7,405 | 3,282 | 1,931 | 706 | 2,371 | 5,281 | 900 | 191,304 | 5,053 | 196,357 |
For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 130 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 133 | ... | 133 |
Gonococci | 5,787 | 197 | 446 | 472 | 55 | 72 | 14 | 3 | 16 | 995 | 8,057 | 76 | 8,133 |
Wassermann | 17,420 | 908 | 866 | 874 | 45 | 121 | 156 | 46 | 11 | 365 | 20,812 | 575 | 21,387 |
Others | 9,087 | 153 | 664 | 316 | 17 | 35 | 17 | 35 | 11 | 320 | 10,655 | 318 | 10,973 |
Total | 32,421 | 1,258 | 1,976 | 1,665 | 117 | 228 | 187 | 84 | 38 | 1,680 | 39,657 | 969 | 40,626 |