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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Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1936.
London. | Middlesex. | Essex. | Surrey. | Kent. | Herts. | Bucks | East Ham. | West Ham. | Croydon. | Total. | Other Places. | Grand Total. | |
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New Patients:— | |||||||||||||
Syphilis | 2,070 | 275 | 106 | 84 | 55 | 33 | 21 | 20 | 41 | 12 | 2,717 | 204 | 2,921 |
Soft Chancre | 192 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ... | 2 | 5 | 2 | 234 | 62 | 296 |
Gonorrhoea | 6,761 | 1,091 | 416 | 293 | 164 | 150 | 56 | 97 | 191 | 29 | 9,248 | 795 | 10,043 |
Not venereal | 8,542 | 1,475 | 643 | 633 | 281 | 145 | 91 | 125 | 196 | 64 | 12,195 | 622 | 12,817 |
Total | 17,565 | 2,849 | 1,178 | 1,015 | 503 | 332 | 168 | 244 | 433 | 107 | 24,394 | 1,683 | 26,077 |
Total attendances | 826,944 | 102,650 | 57,394 | 28,230 | 10,298 | 8,828 | 3,259 | 14,614 | 26,095 | 2,587 | 1,080,899 | 21,479 | 1,102,378 |
No. of in-patient days | 34,115 | 3,737 | 3,092 | 1,796 | 2,688 | 647 | 681 | 245 | 290 | 51 | 47,342 | 10,000 | 57,342 |
A.B.C. doses | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 56,478 |
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. | |||||||||||||
For or at Centres:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 2,662 | 88 | 85 | 38 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 56 | 1 | 2,974 | 146 | 3,120 |
Gonococci | 107,849 | 14,356 | 11,603 | 5,404 | 2,643 | 1,480 | 829 | 2,648 | 3,754 | 407 | 150,973 | 3,884 | 154,857 |
Wassermann | 33,570 | 4,074 | 2,316 | 2,353 | 809 | 499 | 246 | 409 | 717 | 196 | 45,189 | 1,615 | 46,804 |
Others | 40,359 | 4,539 | 4,118 | 2,701 | 897 | 555 | 274 | 801 | 1,445 | 206 | 55,895 | 2,374 | 58,269 |
Total | 184,440 | 23,057 | 18,122 | 10,496 | 4,355 | 2,541 | 1,352 | 3,886 | 5,972 | 810 | 255,031 | 8,019 | 263,050 |
For Practitioners:— | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 6 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 | ... | 6 |
Gonococci | 3,217 | 198 | 185 | 93 | 185 | 30 | 24 | 41 | 5 | 920 | 4,898 | 9 | 4,907 |
Wassermann | 16,204 | 861 | 1,316 | 816 | 227 | 77 | 125 | 32 | 10 | 668 | 20,336 | 524 | 20,860 |
Others | 8,633 | 239 | 1,078 | 374 | 45 | 59 | 18 | 35 | 8 | 1,025 | 11,514 | 461 | 11,975 |
Total | 28,060 | 1,298 | 2,579 | 1,283 | 457 | 166 | 167 | 108 | 23 | 2,613 | 36,754 | 994 | 37,748 |