London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnoses in Cases Treated | Medical. | Surgical. | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | ||
| Sterility | - | 24 | 2 | 1 | - | 27 | |||
| Endometritis | 3 | - | 3 | ||||||
| Dermoid cyst | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Urethral tear | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Peivic infection | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | ||||
| Vaginal discharge | - | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Peritoneal cyst | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Imperforate hymen | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| 542 | |||||||||
| Infectious. | |||||||||
| Influenza | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Dysentery | 4 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Measles | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Chicken Pox | 1 | 1 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| Mumps | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Rubella | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| 66 | |||||||||
| Maternity. | |||||||||
| Pyelitis of pregnancy | - | 10 | 2 | 12 | |||||
| false labour pains | 1 | 18 | 19 | ||||||
| Ectopic gestation | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Albuminuria of pregnancy | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| a.p.h | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | ||
| R.b.p. | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | 7 | |
| Toxaemia of pregnancy | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 6 | ||
| Anaemia of pregnancy | 1 | 1 | |||||||