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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 1935

[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 1935.

Venereal Diseases (L.C.C. Scheme)

Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1935.

London.Middlesex.Essex.SurreyKent.HertsBucksEast Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total.Other Places.Grand Total.
New Patients:—
Syphilis2.734340121115773220255293,5254053,930
Soft Chancre23571674......29...28070350
Gonorrhoea7,6451,062458341149154521061933610,18676610,952
Not venereal9,2131,34161658827915567961998712,64163013,171
Total19,8272,7401,2111,06160934113922945313226,6321,77128,403
Total attendances863,94894,26664'63528,32012,1559.2063,00815,23129,4982,0061,122,27316,2191,138,492
No. of in-patient days32,8684,5462 6921,2612,20968356211773610245,6769,89055,566
Salvarsan Subs, doses42,5676,7252,9042,4201,1867062906051,2669358,7622,05160,813
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
For or at Centres:—
Spirochaetes2,7348494351255212563,0211243,145
Gonococci106,70113,22511,2215,2122 2151,5898252,6514,105518148,2951.824150,119
Wassermann33,8403,7381.9402,04278352123437569622244,3911,37845,769
Others39,9864,0304,(742,2339094842468411,54825354,7041,66656,370
Total183,26121,07717,4299,5223,9192,6991,3103,8916,3741,029250,4114,992255,403
For Practitioners:—
Spirochaetes8316..................18...18
Gonococci5,072195888333526574468537,5411047,645
Wassermann14,7931,0061,3931,2911976596381958919,46759420,061
Others7,1862361,282675152110261679916,26636410,630
Total27,0591,4403,5642,30526415018063412.22137,2921,09238,354