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Croydon 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE X.VENEREAL DISEASES.— Summary of Work done by the London Hospitals during the Year 1925

TABLE X.

VENEREAL DISEASES.— Summary of Work done by the London Hospitals during the Year 1925

London.Middlesex.Essex.Surrey.Kent.Herts.Bucks.East Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total."Other Places."Grand Total
New Patients -
Syphilis4,284375216152143563144120335,4544485,902
Soft Chancre169981132...55...21267279
Gonorrhœa8,6056773362942038234861983510,55077111,321
Not Venereal6,508638339245152653597238708,3872938,680
Total19,5661,69989970250120510023256113824,6031,57926,182
Total Attendances539 35333,63315,14315,1447,9333,1671,3034,31410,0392,648632,67713,454646,131
No. of In-patient days65,9023,3422,8191,4713,3491,5891,1553851,2279681,33521,119102,454
Salvarsan Subs, doses38,1493,5751,7381,5211,01047121531892131948,2372,45950,696

Table: PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS

PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS

For or at Centre—
Spirochaetes1,153506341855421,268621,330
Gonococci48,9232,0341,6701,297l,03734717843791031757,1501,65258,802
Wassermann25,0141,59793096058530412520749520930,4261,17731,603
Others11,9185722378012369071323911414,11021914,329
Total87,0084,2532,8433,0921,8597493796811,448642102,9543,110106,064
For Practitioners.
Spirochaetes202...8..................30...30
Gonococci2,386251140453356430156023,92253,927
Wassermann15,6362,0119555711014910017248046520,54017020,710
Others1,416472213218731221,650291,679
Total19,4582,3111,1171,164154621072034971,06926,14220426,346