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 32—Admissions of London children to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, in 1950
Sex | Articular rheumatism | Chorea | Articular rheumatism and chorea | ||||||||||||||||||
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No. admitted | Percentage with | No cardiac involvement | No. admitted | Percentage with | No cardiac involvement | No. admitted | Percentage with | No cardiac involvement | |||||||||||||
Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | |||||||||||||
Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis | Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis | Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis | |||||||||||||
Boys | 86 | 34.9 | – | 30.2 | 6.9 | 1.2 | 26.8 | 19 | 26.3 | – | 21.1 | – | – | 52.6 | 5 | 20.0 | _– | 20.0 | – | – | 60.0 |
Girls | 100 | 24.0 | – | 35.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 38.0 | 32 | 15.6 | – | 18.8 | – | – | 65.6 | 8 | 37.5 | – | 25.0 | – | – | 37.5 |
Total | 186 | 29.0 | – | 32.8 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 32.8 | 51 | 19.6 | – | 19.6 | – | – | 60.8 | 13 | 30.8 | – | 23.0 | – | – | 46.2 |