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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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APPENDIX 5.
WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL, LEYTONSTONE , E.ll.
STATISTICS , 1948.
l. Total Admissions 8,660
2. Total Discharges 7,726
3. Number of Out-Patient attendances 43,349
4. Total Deaths 1,067
5. Number of operations performed 4,751
6. Number of X-Ray examinations 9,811
7. Number of Post-Mortem examinations
By Coroner's Pathologist 381
By own Medical Officers 120 501
Number of specimens dealt with in Pathological Laboratory 19,743
9. Average number of In-Patient days 30
10. Average number of patients in hospital daily 781
ll. Total number of patients in hospital on 31st December, 1948 723
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