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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 | Cured | Medic al | Died | Cured | Surgical | Died | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relieved | Unrelieved | Relieved | Unrelieved | ||||||
| Violence - continued | 231 | ||||||||
| Dislocation. | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||||||
| Concussion | 30 | 15 | 45 | ||||||
| Lacerations, wounds etc. | 21 | 15 | 1 | 37 | |||||
| Removal of plaster | 13 | 10 | 23 | ||||||
| Infected wound. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Oedema of brain. | ! | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Pract. pelvis. | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| " nasal bone | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Shock | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Muscular strain, | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| 355 | |||||||||
| Miscellaneous. | |||||||||
| Poisoning | 10 | 3 | 1 | 14 | |||||
| Alcoholism. | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| N.A.D. | 51 | 51 | |||||||
| With mother | 31 | 31 | |||||||
| P.U.O. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Hare lip & cleft palate. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Teething. | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Post op: haem: | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Prematurity | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Congenital organic pain. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Congenital Artesia Anal canal | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Vaccination reaction | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Hereditary Dyschondroplasia | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Icterus Neonaton | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Haemagroma | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Malingering. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 123 | |||||||||
Total number of Patients Discharged from Mayday Hospital,
Year Ended 31st December, 1940.
Cured. 3,096
Relieved. 1,260
Unrelieved. 458
Died. 675
5,489
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