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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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D 43
CENTRAL HOME.
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | ||
| Admitted | 905 | 4 | 9 | 966 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 1912 | |
| Discharged | 340 | 4 | 10 | 493 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 875 | |
| Refused admission | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Admitted by means of:— | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | |||||||
| Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | 92 | 109 | 1 | 202 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 580 | 640 | 3 | 1223 | ||||||
| M.O.H | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Otherwise | 26 | 22 | - | 48 | ||||||
| Transferred from other Institutions | 221 | 208 | 6 | 435 | ||||||
| No. of infectious cases | 6 | 4 | 29 | 39 | ||||||
| Transferred to other Institutions | 152 | 245 | 10 | 407 | ||||||
| Deaths | 493 | 447 | - | 940 | ||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 2/1/37 | 415 | 499 | - | 914 | ||||||
| Total No. of able-bodied patients in the Home on 2/1/37 | 381 | 292 | - | 673 | ||||||
| No. of vacant beds on 2/1/37 | 68 | 54 | - | 122 | ||||||