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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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CENTRAL HOME.
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | ||
| Admitted | 850 | 4 | 3 | 971 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 | — | 1843 |
| Discharged | 838 | 2 | 3 | 939 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | — | 1795 |
| Refused admission | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Admitted by means of:— | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | |||||||
| Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | 92 | 125 | - | 217 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 555 | 636 | 1 | 1192 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner & D.M.O | - | - | _ | - | ||||||
| M.O.H | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Otherwise | 32 | 22 | - | 54 | ||||||
| Transferred from other Institutions | 178 | 201 | 1 | 380 | ||||||
| Med. Superintendent | — | — | — | - | ||||||
| No. of infectious cases | 7 | 5 | 14 | 26 | ||||||
| Transferred to other Institutions | 101 | 236 | 2 | 339 | ||||||
| Deaths | 555 | 437 | - | 992 | ||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 29/12/34 | 390 | 451 | 1 | 842 | ||||||
| Total No. of able-bodied in the Home on 29/12/34 | 371 | 304 | - | 675 | ||||||
| No. of vacant beds, if any, on 29/12/34 | 131 | 58 | — | 189 | ||||||