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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnosis | MEDICAL | SURGICAL | TOTAL | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Rel eved | Unrelieved | Died. | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved . | Died | |||
| Infectious. | ||||||||||
| Influenza. | 18 | 4 | — | - | 22 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever. | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | |||||
| Paratyphoid. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Dysentery. | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Whooping Cough. | 1 | - | 7 | - | 8 | |||||
| Cerebro spinal fever | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 10 | 1 | - | - | 11 | |||||
| Measles | - | - | 12 | - | 12 | |||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Chicken pox. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| 73 | ||||||||||
| Mental. | ||||||||||
| Uncertified. | 1 | 20 | 94 | - | 115 | |||||
| Certified. | - | - | 18 | - | 18 | |||||
| M.D. | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | |||||
| Epilepsy. | 2 | 14 | 4 | - | 20 | |||||
| G.P.I. | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | |||||
| Imbecile. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Senile Dementia. | - | 4 | 11 | - | 15 | |||||
| Loss of Memory. | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | |||||
| Hysteria. | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | |||||
| Cretin. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||||
| 182 | ||||||||||
| Nervous and Sensory. | ||||||||||
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | - | 6 | 2 | 39 | 47 | |||||
| Meningitis. | 4 | - | 1 | 6 | 11 | |||||
| Chorea. | 5 | 2 | - | - | 7 | |||||
| Hemiplegia. | 8 | 3 | - | - | 11 | |||||
| Sciatica. | 2 | 2 | - | - | 4 | |||||
| Neurosis. | - | 6 | 2 | - | 8 | |||||
| Cerebral thrombosis. | 2 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 38 | |||||
| Cerebral tumour. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Disseminated | ||||||||||
| sclerosis. | - | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | |||||
| Paralysis Agitans. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Neuralgia. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||||
| Convulsions. | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tabes Dorsalis | - | 1 | 2 | - | ||||||
| Parkinson's disease.- | - | 1 | - | 1 | ||||||
| Cerebral | ||||||||||
| arteriosclerosis | - | 3 | 3 | - | 6 | |||||
| Cerebellar tumour. | - | - | 1 | ~ | 1 | |||||
| Paraplegia. | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Cerebral abscess. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Subarrachnoid haem: | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Motor Spasm. | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | |||||
| Landry's paralysis. | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Von Recklinghausens Dis. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Apnesia | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Tetanus. | - | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| Migraine. | 1 | - | - | 2 | ||||||
| Cerebral degeneration-. | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tics. | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |||||
| Hydrocephalus. | - | 1 | - | 1 | ||||||
| 165 | ||||||||||
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