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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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FOREST GATE HOSPITAL.
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Maternity | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Born | Mental | Epileptic | Others | ||
| Admitted | - | 23 | 22 | 892 | 61 | 28 | 33 | 749 | 22 | 5 | 18 | 1853 |
| Discharged | 2 | 23 | 25 | 883 | 9 | 22 | 33 | 748 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1761 |
| Deaths | — | l | 1 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 4 | — | — | 82 |
| Admitted by means of:- | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | |||||||||
| Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | - | 53 | - | 53 | ||||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 2 | 34 | 3 | 39 | ||||||||
| Relieving Officers | - | 78 | 1 | 79 | ||||||||
| M.O.H. and Relieving Officers | - | 491 | - | 491 | ||||||||
| Otherwise | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21 | ||||||||
| Transferred from other Institutions | 35 | 133 | 23 | 191 | ||||||||
| Med. Superintendent | 5 | 220 | 8 | 233 | ||||||||
| No. of infectious cases | - | 12 | - | 12 | ||||||||
| Transferred to other Institutions | 34 | 62 | 30 | 126 | ||||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 2/1/37 | 140 | 483 | 113 | 736 | ||||||||
| Total No. of Able-bodied men on 2/1/37 | 6 | - | - | 6 | ||||||||
| Total No. of maternity patients in the Home on 2/1/37 | - | 42 | 30 infants in maternity wards Cots in Maternity Wards and Mothers' Nursery | 72 | ||||||||
| No. of vacant beds on 2/1/37 | 4 | 27 | 31 & Cots | |||||||||