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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Return relating to persons who were treated at the Croydon General Hospital Clinic, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
| 1924. | 1923. | 1922. | 1921. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Number of persons dealt with at or in connection with the out patient Clinic for the first time and found to be suffering from: - | |||||||||
| Syphilis and Gonorrhoea | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | |
| Syphilis | 29 | 42 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 48 | 31 | |
| Soft Chancre | 3 | — | 1 | _ | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Gonorrhœa | 44 | 32 | 40 | 20 | 53 | 13 | 49 | 19 | |
| Not suffering from venereal disease | 25 | 51 | 16 | 35 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 19 | |
| 101 | 125 | 80 | 89 | 105 | 63 | 117 | 70 | ||
| Number of persons discharged from the oul-patient Clinic after completion of treatment for :- | |||||||||
| Syphilis | 3 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Soft Chancre | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Gonorrhoea | 15 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 2 | |
| Conditions other than Venereal | — | — | 16 | 35 | 17 | 11 | — | — | |
| 18 | 13 | 44 | 57 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 3 | ||
| Number of persons who ceased to attend the out-patient Clinic without completing treatment or after completion of treatment but before final tests as to cure, and who were suffering from: — | |||||||||
| Syphilis | 17 | 21 | 29 | 43 | 35 | 22 | 21 | 27 | |
| Soft Chancre | 2 | — | 1 | — | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | |
| Gonorrhoea | 23 | 13 | 49 | 19 | 44 | 8 | 34 | 25 | |
| Conditions other than Venereal | — | — | — | 3 | 9 | — | — | ||
| 42 | 34 | 79 | 62 | 84 | 39 | 59 | 53 | ||
| Total attendances of all persons at the out patient Clinic who were suffering from: — | |||||||||
| Syphilis | 498 | 601 | 609 | 647 | 685 | 657 | 739 | 692 | |
| Soft Chancre | 45 | — | 27 | — | 16 | — | 3 | 11 | |
| Gonorrhoea | 1186 | 284 | 1160 | 317 | 1683 | 173 | 1441 | 268 | |
| Not suffering from venereal disease | 45 | 97 | 30 | 59 | 41 | 68 | 41 | 68 | |
| 1774 | 982 | 1826 | 1023 | 2425 | 898 | 2224 | 1039 | ||
| Aggregate number of "in-patient days" of treatment given to persons suffering from: — | |||||||||
| Syphilis | — | 52 | — | — | — | — | 32 | — | |
| Gonorrhœa | — | — | |||||||
| — | 52 | - | — | — | — | 32 | — | ||
| Number of persons treated with Salvarsan substitutes | 92 | 103 | 78 | 79 | 42 | 44 | 59 | 48 | |
| Number of doses of Salyarsan substitutes given Examinations of pathological material : — | 516 | 401 | 382 | 370 | |||||
| Specimens from persons attending at the Treatment Centre which were sent for examination to an independent laboratory :— | |||||||||
| For detection of spirochaetes | — | — | — | — | |||||
| ,, ,, gonococci | 136 | 100 | 139 | 162 | |||||
| ,, Wasserrmann reaction | 258 | 187 | 266 | 250 | |||||
| ,, Others | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 394 | 287 | 405 | 412 | ||||||