London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
London County Council 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 33—Admissions of London children to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, in 1949
| Sex | Articular Rheumatism | Chorea | Articular Rheumatism and Chorea | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number admitted | Percentage with | Number admitted | Percentage with | Number admitted | Percentage with | ||||||||||
| Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | No cardiac involvement | Carditis | Valvular damage, Mitral | No cardiac involvement | Carditis | Valvular damage, Mitral | No cardiac involvement | ||||||
| Mitral | Mitral and Aortic | and pericarditis | |||||||||||||
| Boys | 108 | 33.3 | 1.7 | 24.4 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 35.2 | 28 | 7.1 | 17.9 | 75.0 | 7 | 14.3 | 42.9 | 42.8 |
| Girls | 133 | 18.8 | — | 25.6 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 51.9 | 41 | 19.5 | 22.1 | 58.4 | 14 | 28.6 | 35.7 | 35.7 |
| Total | 241 | 25.3 | 0.8 | 24.5 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 44.4 | 69 | 14.5 | 20.3 | 65.2 | 21 | 23.8 | 38.1 | 38.1 |