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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | Totals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Ttls. | ||
| Totals of Items 5, 6, 7 and 8 (brought forward) | 31 | 41 | 56 | 16 | 312 | 535 | 399 | 592 | 991 | |
| 9. Number of patients transferred to other Centres or Institutions or to private practitioners | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 28 | |
| 10. Number of patients remaining under treatment or observation on 31st December | 49 | 84 | 1 | - | 18 | 46 | 68 | 130 | 198 | |
| Totals of Items 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 | 87 | 132 | 61 | 17 | 335 | 585 | 483 | 734 | 1217 | |
| (These totals should agree with those of Items 1, 2, 3 and 4) | ||||||||||
| 11. Number of patients included in Item 7 who failed to complete one course of treatment of either penicillin or of arsenic and bismuth and were suffering from:— | ||||||||||
| (a) Acquired syphilis of less than 1 year's duration | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (/>) Acquired syphilis of more than 1 year's duration | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (c) Congenital syphilis of less than 1 year's duration | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 12. Number of attendances | ||||||||||
| (a) for individual attention by the medical officers | 3754 | 4504 | 614 | 226 | 2783 | 2978 | 7151 | 7708 | 14859 | |
| (6) for intermediate treatment, e.g., dressings, etc. | 846 | 1219 | — | 4 | 162 | 1565 | 1008 | 2788 | 3796 | |
| Total Attendances | 4600 | 5723 | 614 | 230 | 2945 | 4543 | 8159 | 10496 | 18655 | |
| Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 years and over | Totals | ||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 13. Number of patients suffering from congenital syphilis in Item 3 above classified according to age | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 10 |
| Microscopical | Serum | Others | ||||||||
| 14. Pathological Work:— | for Syphilis | for G'n'rh. | Cultural | for Syphilis Wr. & G Kahn | for G'n'rh. | Cerebro. Spinal Fluid | ||||
| (a) Number of specimes xamined at, and by the medical officer of, the Treatment Centre | 4 | 1160 | 1006 | 1596 | 401 | 58 | - | |||
| (b) Number of specimens from patients at the Treatment Centre sent to a pathological laboratory | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | |||
| Syphilis (less than 1 year) | Syphilis (more than 1 year) | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 15. Contacts attending for examination through the agency of :— (a) Patients | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 52 | 41 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 78 | |||
| Totals | 8 | 10 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 90 | 119 | ||