Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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The following table refers to this scheme:—
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Summary of work done by the Hospitals during the Year 1920.
London
Middlesex
Essex
Surrey
Kent
Herts
Bucks
E.ham
W. Ham
Croydon
Total
New Patients:—
Syphilis
7,917
704
392
285
206
89
58
121
324
80
10,176
Soft Chancre
570
26
19
12
21
-
2
4
26
3
683
Gonorrhoea
10,127
872
443
293
182
87
53
164
363
71
12,655
Not Venereal
4,998
534
237
165
113
39
32
72
229
58
6,477
Total
23,612 2,136
1,091
755
522
215
145
361
942
212
29,991
Total Attendances
365,478
34,011
12,386
12,190
7,282
2,436
1,946
3,434
10,278
2,480
451,921
No. of " In-patient"
days.
54,529
1,846
2,924
1,900
3,505
1,324
1,209
332
963
405
68,937
Salvarsan Substitutes,
doses given
51.266
4,635
2,164
2,666
1,565
643
603
603
1,662
552
66,359
Patholo gical Ex aminatio ns.
For or at Centre:-
Spirochaetes
1,384
191
31
63
14
14
19
13
90
8
1,827
Gonococci
17,745
1,694
1,231
639
375
188
73
497
1,143
204
23,789
Wassermann
24,768
1,657
989
934
541
202
129
241
696
199
30,356
Others
809
42
12
6
24
2
4
4
5
1
909
Total
44,706
3,584
2,263
1,042
954
406
225
755
1,934
412
56,881
For Practitioners:—
Spirochaetes
26
-
1
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
29
Gonococci
1,611
149
113
57
3
12
-
16
11
55
2 017
Wassermann
9,513
537
750
411
67
32
22
136
268
138
11,874
Others
84
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
84
Total
11,234
686
864
470
70
44
22
152
279
193
14,014