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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 1945
[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 | ||
| Hemiplegia | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 | |||||
| Sciatica | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Neurasthenia | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Neurosis | 15 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | |
| Paralysis agitans | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Cerebral thrombosis | 2 | 15 | 5 | 26 | - | 48 | |||
| Neuralgia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Neuritis | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Cerebral tumour | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Glioma | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Paraplegia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Encephalitis | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Cerebral abscess | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Paralysis | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | |
| Migraine | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Habit vomiting | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Headache | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 204 | |||||||||
| Respiratory. | |||||||||
| Bronchitis | 35 | 90 | 20 | 8 | - | - | - | 153 | |
| Pneumonia | 115 | 44 | 5 | 65 | 229 | ||||
| Pleural effusion | 2 | 4 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| Bronchial Catarrh | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Bronchiectasis | 3 | 9 | 2 | 14 | |||||
| Atelectasis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pleurisy | 11 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 |
| Emphysema | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Asthma | - | 34 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 37 |