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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Condition. | In on 1st Jan. 1945 | Admitted or transferred. | Discharged. | I.S.Q. | Died. | In on 1st Jan. 1946 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arrested. | Quiescent. | Improved. | ||||||
Infantile Paralysis | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Tubercular joint Disease | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | 12 |
Hip Disease | 3 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 |
Hemiplgeia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Genu Valgum | 2 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - |
Pes Planus | - | 6 | - | - | 6 | - | - | - |
Talipes | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Rickets | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Other Deformities | - | 4 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - |
Spastic Paraplegia | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Scoliosis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Osteomyelitis | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
19 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 7 | - | 18 |
The percentage of arrested cases was 9.37 per cent.; quiescent
rases 6.25 per cent.; and 62.5 per cent. were "improved."