London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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SOURCES OF REFERRAL
| Number of Patients | |
|---|---|
| Goodmayes Hospital | 107 |
| General Practitioners | 104 |
| Other Hospitals | 16 |
| Probation Officers | 5 |
| Psychiatric Social Worker | 5 |
| Social Services | 2 |
| National Association for Mental Health | 1 |
| D.R.O. | 1 |
| Medical Officer of Health | 6 |
| TOTAL (Fresh Cases) | 247 |
CLINICAL VARIETIES.
| Male | Female | |
|---|---|---|
| Psychoneuroses | ||
| Anxiety State - Acute | 6 | 9 |
| ,, ,, Chronic | 15 | 22 |
| Psychosomatic | 1 | - |
| Hysteria | 10 | 19 |
| Obsessive - Compulsive State | - | 6 |
| Behaviour Disorder | 10 | 2 |
| Psychopathic Personality | 5 | - |
| Social Problem | 1 | 1 |
| Cogenital Mental Defect | 5 | 8 |
| Psychoses | ||
| Melancholia - Recent | 12 | 17 |
| Recurrent | 2 | 14 |
| Chronic | 4 | |
| Involutional | 1 | 26 |
| Schizophrenia-Simple | 6 | 1 |
| Paranoid | 15 | 8 |
| Catatonic | 2 | 1 |
| Hebephrenic | 4 | 2 |
| Paraphrenia | - | 6 |
| Organic Reaction Types | ||
| Puerperal Psychosis | - | 4 |
| Senile Psychosis | 2 | 5 |
| Cerebral Arteriopathy | -- | 3 |
| Vitamin Deficiency | - | 1 |
| Dementia Paralytica | 1 | - |
| Confusional Insanity | 1 | 6 |
| Tuberculous Meningitis | - | 1 |
| Mental Disorder with Epilepsy | 5 | 3 |
| 106 | 166 | |