Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 | ||
Tabes dorsalis | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Glioma | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Parkinson's disease | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Cerebral arterio sclerosis | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Cerebral tumour | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Paraplegia | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Cerebral abscess | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Subarachnoid haemorrhage | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
Paralysis | - | 8 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 13 |
Migraine | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Cerebral degen | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
208 | |||||||||
Respiratory. | |||||||||
Bronchitis | 33 | 67 | 11 | 16 | - | - | - | - | 127 |
Pneumonia | 108 | 23 | 7 | 54 | - | - | - | - | 192 |
Pleural effusion | - | 8 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | 23 |
Bronchial Catarrh | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Bronchiectasis | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
Pleurisy | 11 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 18 |
Asthma | 5 | 28 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 43 |
Empyema | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 9 |
Pulmonary congestion | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Spontaneous Pneumothorarax | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Asphyxia | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Fibrosis of lungs | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Tumour of lung | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Pulmonary embolism | 1 | - | 2 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 12 |
442 |