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 | ||
Pelvic rectal junction | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Spleen | — | — | 1 | 1 | |||||
Lip | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Thyroid | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Ileo-caecal junction | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Caecum | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Glioma of brain | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
244 | |||||||||
Circulatory (Blood). | |||||||||
Anaemia | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | ||||
Septicaemia | — | 1 | 2 | — | - | 3 | |||
Hyperpiesia | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | |||
Pernicious Anaemia | — | 6 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 7 | |
Pyaemia | 3 | — | — | 3 | |||||
Thrombosis | — | 14 | 11 | 25 | |||||
Phlebitis | 7 | — | - | — | 7 | ||||
Gangrene | — | — | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Varicose veins | — | — | 11 | 11 | |||||
Leukaemia | — | 1 | 4 | — | 5 | ||||
Naevus | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
Epistaxis | 13 | - | - | 13 | |||||
Beri-beri | — | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |||
Malaria | 1 | 19 | 20 | ||||||
Purpura rheumatica | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Blood transfusion | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Haematoma | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
116 | |||||||||
Circulatory (Heart) | |||||||||
Myocardial Degen: | 19 | 2 | 101 | 122 | |||||
Hypertension | 29 | 3 | 3 | — | 35 | ||||
Arterio sclerosis | — | 21 | 2 | 25 | - | 48 | |||
Endocarditis | 2 | — | 2 | 4 |