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West Ham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Diseases treated.
Table XVII gives in tabular form a classification by disease
groups of the diseases for which patients were discharged from
or died in the hospital during the year.
Deaths.
The number of deaths which occurred in the hospital
was 964. This was an increase of 37 over the number for the
previous year, viz., 927.
Table XVIII shows the age groups in which deaths
occurred in the seven years since the transfer of the hospital.

Table: TableXVIII.Central Home. Deaths by ages.

TableXVIII.

Central Home. Deaths by ages.

Ages.1931193119331934193519361937
Under 1-------
1—-------
2——------
5—-1-----
15—131321-
25—9576439
35—179811888
45—34413236353329
55—13414410413911011399
65—307377313333324310317
75—323351315375378354367
85—104911059599105135
Totals9291,022885998960927964

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FOREST HOUSE.
This institution is situated in the same grounds as Whipps
Cross Hospital. It consists of a large centre building—originally
an old mansion—surrounded by a series of out-buildings which
serve as day rooms and dormitories. There are 13 wards and 396
beds. The accommodation provides mainly for aged men, but
there is in addition accommodation for 38 epileptics, 22 cases under
Section 24 of the Lunacy Act, and 35 mental patients not