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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 1933

[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 1933.

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

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1933.

London.Middlesex.Essex.Surrey.Kent.Herts.BucksEast Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total.Other Places.Grand Total.
New Patients
Syphilis3,2763562051408880234560164,2694414,710
Soft Chancre130710...64222116332195
Gonorrhoea8,5461,06063326190134541282564611,37073412,104
Not venereal8,4641,08350448517713051861857111,23646911,705
Total20,4162,5061,34995146032813026150313427,0381,67628,714
Total attendances856,59281,16555,24425,58411,0218,5022,90011,22826,0252,4071,080,66816.5461097214
No. of in-patient days30,8073,2713,3522,0321.9537111811663239442,8909,69152,581
Salvarsan Subs, doses46,0846,7103,6152,2201,0018443516341,25517962,8933,11066,01 3

Table: PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

For or at Centres:-
Spirochaetes2,29710910263223011171782,6761162,792
Gonococci86,7018,1617,8544,5511,9641,1026571,3063,140505115,9412,376118,317
Wassermann33,1373,1282.0221,62864752421740575521342,6761,54944,225
Others35,7822,1247,8191,0937133381151,6543,10812952,8751,64354,518
Total157,91713,52217,7977,3353,3461,9941,0003,3827,020855214,1685,684219,852
For Practitioners:—
Spirochaetes29122......1.........35...35
Gonococci5,90322142441119679423179878,2831118,394
Wassermann16,3111,1171,02691815510413328439720,19349620,689
Others8,5322087643773325325339110,36117010,531
Total30,7751,5472.2181,70838420817956241.77538,87277739,649