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Croydon 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: VENEREAL DISEASES.Annual Summary Tear 1921.

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VENEREAL DISEASES.

Annual Summary Tear 1921.

		London.	Middlesex.	Essex.	Surrey.	Kent.	Herts.	Bucks.	East Ha	m. West Ham-	Croydon.	All Districts.
l.	No. of persons dealt with at 01 in connection with the clinic for the first time and found to be suffering from-
	Syphilis	6,145	559	271	199	162	53	36	71	240	64	7,800
	Soft chancre	313	31	12	7	6	1	...		17	1	391
	Gonorrhœa	8,284	614	361	210	177	72	32	129	313	58	10,250
	Not found to be suffering from Venereal Disease	4,474	432	229	175	97	40	24	55	349	27	5,902
	Total	19,216	1,636	873	591	442	166	92	258	919	150	24,343*
	Total Attendances	400,416	33,547	12,242	11,124	7,381	2,248	1.697	3,928	9,294	2,604	484,481
2.	No. of "in-patient" days of Treatment	54,244	2,981	2,830	2,042	2,3"	1,073	408	452	1,038	351	67,730
3-	No. of doses of Salvarsan substitutes given	57 342	4,850	2,198	2,730	1.296	476	311	604	1,334	400	71,541
*In addition, 1,075 cases were dealt with from " counties outside the scheme," the majority of which were merchant seamen from all parts of the world.
The total number of new patients dealt with at the Clinics for the year was therefore										24.343
										1,075
										25,418

Table: PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

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PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Nature of Test.	London.	Middlesex.	Essex.	Surrey.	Kent.	Herts.	Bucks	East Ham.	West Ham.	Croydon	All Districts
For Practitioners.
For detection of spirochetes	30	1	...	...	...	...	...	...	1	...	32
For detection of gonococci	2,111	99	73	59	11	7	4	15	51	218	12,648
For Wassermann re-action	13,146	456	702	428	124	49	28	101	276	326	15,636
Other examinations	98	8	6	...	1	...	...	1	2	3	119
Total	15.385	564	781	487	136	56	32	117	330	547	18,435