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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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| Syphilis | Soft Chancre | Gonnorhoea | Non-venereal or undiagnosed conditions | Totals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Totals | |
| 5. Number of coses discharged after completion of treatment and final tests of cure or after diagnosis as non-venereal | 15 | 18 | - | - | 71 | 9 | 84 | 154 | 170 | 181 | 351 |
| 6. Number of cases which ceased to attend before completion of treatment and were, on first attendance, suffering from:- | |||||||||||
| Syphilis, primar y | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| " , secondary | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| " , latent in first year of infection | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| all later stages | 5 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| " , Congenital | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Soft Chancre | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gonorrhoea 1st year of infection | - | - | - | - | 27 | 2 | - | - | 27 | 2 | 29 |
| later | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | - | 4 |
| 7. Number of cases which ceased to attend after completion of treatment but before final tests of cure. | 11 | 8 | - | - | 13 | 2 | - | - | 24 | 10 | 34 |
| 8. Number of cafes transferred to other Centres or to institutions, or to care of private practitioners. | 17 | 8 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | 22 | 8 | 30 |
| 9.Number of cases remaining under treatment or observation on 31st December. | 54 | 58 | - | - | 16 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 75 | 75 | 150 |
| TOTALS OF ITEMS 5,6,7,8 and 9 | 109 | 110 | - | - | 136 | 22 | 89 | 162 | 334 | 294 | 628 |