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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
Croydon 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnoses, | Medical | Surgical | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | ||
| Skin | |||||||||
| Boils, abscesses & Carbuncles, | 30 | 8 | 38 | ||||||
| Burns & scalds | 11 | 10 | 1 | 22 | |||||
| Eczema | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||||||
| Impetigo | 6 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| Scabies | 12 | 1 | 1 | 13 | |||||
| Dermatitis | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |||||
| Erythema Nodosum | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Cheiropompholyx | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Cellulitis | 9 | 5 | 2 | 16 | |||||
| Ulceration. | 2 | 4 | l | 7 | |||||
| Sinusitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Adenoma | l | 1 | |||||||
| Polydacty1i sm Herpes | 2 | 1 | l | 2 2 | |||||
| Pemphigus | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Septic spots | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Purpura | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 135 | |||||||||
| Pulmonary T.B. | 34 | 35 | 49 | 118 | |||||
| Non-pulmonary T.B. | |||||||||
| Spine | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| Meninges | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| Glands. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Hip. | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Kidney | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Miliary | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Abdomen | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Panereatitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Generalised | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| T.BcPeritonitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Peritonitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Perirectal abscess | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 30 | |||||||||
| Venereal | |||||||||
| Gonorrhoea | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Syphillis | 2 | 1 | 3 5 | ||||||
| Violence | |||||||||
| Fractured limbs. | 34 | 96 | 9 | 19 | 158 | ||||
| spine. | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| malleolus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| skull | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| ribs. | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| Minor injuries. | 10 | 5 | 15 | ||||||
| Contusions & abrasios | 11 | 17 | 28 | ||||||
| Sprains. | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Abdominal injury | l | 1 | |||||||
| 1 | 231 | ||||||||
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