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 Croydon]
This page requires JavaScript
London | Middlesex. | Essex | Surrey. | Kent. | Herts. | Bucks. | East Ham. | West Ham. | Croydon. | Total. | "Other Places." | Grand Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Syphilis | 4,181 | 335 | 177 | 129 | 115 | 28 | 35 | 39 | 131 | 23 | 5,193 | 545 | 5,738 |
Soft Chancre | 197 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | ... | 235 | 68 | 303 |
Gonorrhoea | 8,581 | 821 | 419 | 318 | 180 | 87 | 45 | 104 | 223 | 56 | 10,834 | 849 | 11,683 |
Not Venereal | 6,733 | 609 | 364 | 293 | 177 | 76 | 43 | 84 | 234 | 51 | 8,664 | 324 | 8,988 |
Total | 19,692 | 1,773 | 963 | 744 | 479 | 193 | 124 | 229 | 599 | 130 | 24,926 | 1,786 | 26,712 |
Total Attendances | 569,938 | 38,744 | 15,007 | 17,826 | 7,883 | 3,578 | 1,748 | 4,608 | 9,990 | 2,767 | 672,089 | 14,986 | 687,075 |
No. of In-patient days | 58,469 | 3,383 | 2,743 | 1,989 | 3,780 | 1,502 | 1,408 | 779 | 1,355 | 330 | 75,738 | 25,997 | 101,735 |
Salvarsan Subs. doses | 37,325 | 3,791 | 1,693 | 1,510 | 894 | 385 | 333 | 326 | 1,053 | 218 | 47,528 | 1,787 | 49,315 |
Spirochaetes | 755 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | ... | 1 | 18 | 1 | 830 | 85 | 915 |
Gonococci | 44,703 | 2,193 | 1,765 | 941 | 1,040 | 286 | 113 | 527 | 1,009 | 248 | 52,825 | 1,638 | 54,463 |
Wassermann | 24,621 | 1,674 | 996 | 877 | 537 | 249 | 139 | 185 | 491 | 164 | 29,933 | 1,294 | 31,227 |
Others | 11,145 | 746 | 291 | 879 | 292 | 50 | 85 | 24 | 32 | 129 | 13,673 | 265 | 13,938 |
Total | 81,224 | 4,647 | 3,054 | 2,705 | 1,875 | 590 | 337 | 737 | 1,550 | 542 | 97,26l | 3,282 | 100,543 |
For Practitioners. | |||||||||||||
Spirochaetes | 19 | 7 | ... | 7 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 34 | ... | 34 | |
Gonococci | 3,187 | 266 | 162 | 734 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 353 | 4,794 | 18 | 4,812 |
Wassermann | 16,021 | 1,504 | 932 | 587 | 109 | 77 | 103 | 183 | 495 | 438 | 20,449 | 258 | 20,707 |
Others | 1,433 | 31 | 15 | 433 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1,962 | 50 | 2,012 |
Total | 20,660 | 1,808 | 1,109 | 1,761 | 154 | 100 | 133 | 199 | 516 | 799 | 27,239 | 326 | 27,565 |