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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Table IV.
Classification by disease groups of patients discharged from or dying in whipps cross hospital during 1937.
| Disease classification. | Men. | Women. | Children. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discharged. | Died. | Discharged. | Died | Discharged. | Died | Discharged. | Died. | ||
| 1. | Infectious diseases | 30 | 6 | 37 | 3 | 115 | 14 | 182 | 23 |
| 2. | Cancer and other tumours | 79 | 101 | 66 | 78 | - | 2 | 145 | 181 |
| 3. | Diseases of circulatory system | 192 | 129 | 272 | 120 | 95 | 11 | 559 | 260 |
| 4. | Diseases of the respiratory system (excluding tuberculosis) | 565 | 170 | 377 | 84 | 407 | 74 | 1,349 | 328 |
| 6. | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 89 | 63 | 73 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 167 | 103 |
| 6. | Diseases of digestive system | 764 | 74 | 564 | 49 | 358 | 20 | 1,686 | 143 |
| 7. | Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs | 221 | 82 | 302 | 77 | 203 | 7 | 726 | 166 |
| 8. | Diseases of the skin | 91 | 2 | 50 | 1 | 148 | - | 289 | 3 |
| 9. | Rheumatic diseases— acute and chronic | 84 | - | 151 | - | 76 | 1 | 311 | 1 |
| 10. | Diseases of nutrition | 7 | - | 7 | 4 | - | 1 | 14 | 4 |
| 11. | Diseases of blood and blood-forming organs | 14 | - | 11 | 3 | 1 | - | 26 | 3 |
| 12. | Diseases of genito-urinary system | 223 | 67 | 225 | 24 | 36 | - | 484 | 91 |
| 13. | Non-tuberculous disease of bones, etc. | 12 | - | 3 | 1 | 13 | - | 28 | 1 |
| 14. | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | 10 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 30 | 28 |
| 15. | Disease of pregnancy, childbirth and the puer-perium | - | - | 512 | 13 | — | — | 512 | 13 |
| 16. | Diabetes | 34 | 6 | 54 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 95 | 17 |
| 17. | Old age, senility and senile decay | 7 | 6 | 31 | 9 | - | - | 38 | 14 |
| 18. | Congenital malformations | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | 4 |
| 19. | Diseases of early infancy | — | — | — | — | 86 | 40 | 86 | 40 |
| 20. | Violence | 676 | 32 | 380 | 38 | 267 | 2 | 1,323 | 72 |
| 21. | Ill-defined causes | 128 | 58 | 136 | 4 | 14 | - | 278 | 62 |
| 22. | Convalescence | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23. | Mental | 328 | 28 | 450 | 7 | 1 | - | 779 | 35 |
| Totals | 3,554 | 830 | 3,717 | 567 | 1,836 | 195 | 9,107 | 1,592 | |
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