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 London County Council]
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Table 30 —Condition on discharge in 1950 of London children treated in Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton
Sex | Fit for ordinary school or ordinary employment | Fit for P.H. school or light employment | Unfit for school or work | Died | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Percentage | No. | Percentage | No. | Percentage | No. | Percentage | ||
Boys | 112 | 91.1 | 7 | 5.7 | 4 | 3.2 | — | — | 123 |
Girls | 140 | 85.4 | 17 | 10.4 | 7 | 4.2 | — | — | 164 |
Total | 252 | 87.8 | 24 | 8.4 | 11 | 3.8 | — | — | 287 |
Table 31—Percentage number of children with cardiac involvement admitted to the special rheumatism units, 1936-1950
1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
37.7 | 43.1 | 36.7 | 35.4 | 32.1 | 40.7 | 67.3 | 66.7 | 68.4 | 60.3 | 62.4 | 67.7 | 70.2 | 51.7 | 60.8 |
The percentage of children with cardiac involvement admitted to the rheumatism
units has risen during the last ten years and the figure for 1950 (6.8) was nearly
double that for 1940 (32.1). The main rise, however, occurred in the early part of
the decade and was a sudden not a progressive one, being probably due to the fact
that with only a limited number of beds available, the milder cases were being treated
elsewhere and consequently the more severe cases with cardiac complications formed
a larger proportion of the whole.
Table 33—Treatment of venereal disease at London clinics
Year | New Cases | Total venereal cases | Total non-venereal cases | Total attendances | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Syphilis | S. Chancre | Gonorrhoea | ||||||||||
M | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
1918 | 3,764 | 3,002 | 116 | 13 | 4,844 | 1,940 | 8,724 | 4,955 | 1,345 | 1,348 | 169,485 | |
1928 | 3,433 | 1,837 | 229 | 6 | 8,249 | 2,647 | 11,911 | 4,490 | 6,369 | 3,226 | 544,969 | 218,566 |
1938 | 1,799 | 1,065 | 235 | 9 | 7,120 | 2,151 | 9,154 | 3,225 | 8,249 | 5,269 | 588,815 | 263,908 |
1939 | 1,573 | 904 | 164 | 5 | 5,982 | 1,652 | 7,719 | 2,561 | 7,468 | 5,008 | 412,067 | 189,355 |
1940 | 1,493 | 709 | 146 | 9 | 4,591 | 1,319 | 6,230 | 2,037 | 5,383 | 3,515 | 305,693 | 131,375 |
1941 | 1,381 | 773 | 205 | 12 | 3,862 | 1,425 | 5,448 | 2,210 | 4,675 | 3,709 | 224,954 | 122,492 |
1942 | 1,369 | 917 | 148 | 9 | 3,082 | 1,444 | 4,599 | 2,370 | 4,960 | 5,177 | 222,864 | 155,559 |
1943 | 1,362 | 1,107 | 104 | 15 | 2,839 | 1,442 | 4,305 | 2,564 | 7,627 | 8,867 | 219,014 | 177,859 |
1944 | 1,176 | 967 | 89 | 13 | 2,929 | 1,363 | 4,194 | 2,343 | 6,568 | 8,234 | 188,450 | 156,332 |
1945 | 1,417 | 1,176 | 102 | 3 | 3,962 | 1,738 | 5,481 | 2,917 | 9,517 | 9,849 | 196,074 | 160,697 |
1946 | 2,371 | 1,354 | 154 | 11 | 7,718 | 1,785 | 10,243 | 3,150 | 17,153 | 8,654 | 284,108 | 161,839 |
1947 | 2,207 | 1,301 | 128 | 6 | 7,236 | 1,408 | 9,571 | 2,715 | 13,847 | 7,132 | 269,435 | 147,717 |
1948 | 1,949 | 1,155 | 102 | 6 | 7,008 | 1,346 | 9,059 | 2,507 | 16,349 | 6,821 | 268,203 | 148,212 |
1949 | 1,572 | 790 | 62 | 5 | 6,463 | 1,207 | 8,097 | 2,002 | 16,140 | 6,533 | 245,250 | 134,897 |
1950 | 1,278 | 664 | 90 | 3 | 5,740 | 1,127 | 7,108 | 1,794 | 17,385 | 6,180 | 238,986 | 122,482 |