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 Croydon]
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The following Table shows the comparative admissions during
1910 and previous years.
Hospital diagnosis | Cases admitted during 1905. | Cases admitted during 1906. | Cases admitted during 1907. | Cases admitted during 1908. | Cases admitted during 1909. | Cases admitted during 1910. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 352 | 338 | 562 | 497† | 608 | *624 |
Diphtheria | 178 | 239 | 249 | 354 | 292 | |
Enteric Fever | 15 | 59 | 15 | |||
Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | _ |
Pulmonary Phthis's | — | — | 1 | — | — | - |
Other diseases | 64 | 47 | 42 | 31 | 45 | 47 |
Total | 609 | 644 | 864 | 941 | 956 | 908 |
f includes four casts sent in as Diphtheria.
‡Including 26 cafes.
* „ 8 „
The following Table gives the number of patients admitted for each
disease, the number discharged or died, and average duration of stay
in hospital and probable detention in hospital, for the year 1910 :—
TABLE H. iv.
Disease. | Remaining at end of 1909. | Admitted during 1910. | Discharged during 1910. | Died during 1910. | Remaining at end of 1910. | Average Residence in days. | Probable detention in Hospital in days. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fatal Cases. | Non-Fatal Cases. | Non-Fatal Cases. | Fatal Cases. | ||||||
Scarlet Fever | 97 | 624 | 636 | 7 | 78 | 28 6 | 56 4 | 47 | 19 |
Cases admitted to Hospital as but subsequently found not to be Scarlet Fever | - | 18 | 17 | 1 | - | - | 8 1 | 2 | - |
Diphtheria | 26 | 222 | 179 | 15 | 54 | 81 | 55.7 | 46 | 7 |
Cases admitted to Hospital as but subsequently found not to be Diphtheria | - | 20 | 19 | 1 | - | 1 | 12 4 | 14 | 1 |
Enteric Fever | 4 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 63.9 | 65 | * |
Cases admitted to Hospital as but subsequently found not to be Enteric Fever | - | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | 19 | 9.8 | 1 | † |
Other Admissions | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | - | 42 | — |
Total | 127 | 908 | 873 | 26 | 136 | - | - | — | — |
* One case only. Lived two days.
† One case only. Lived 19 days.