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Croydon 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE X

VENEREALDISEASES.Summary of Work done by the London Hospitals during the Year 1926.

LondonMiddlesex.EssexSurrey.Kent.Herts.Bucks.East Ham.West Ham.Croydon.Total."Other Places."Grand Total
New Patients —
Syphilis4,181335177129115283539131235,1935455,738
Soft Chancre197834721211...23568303
Gonorrhoea8,58182141931818087451042235610,83484911,683
Not Venereal6,733609364293177764384234518,6643248,988
Total19,6921,77396374447919312422959913024,9261,78626,712
Total Attendances569,93838,74415,00717,8267,8833,5781,7484,6089,9902,767672,08914,986687,075
No. of In-patient days58,4693,3832,7431,9893,7801,5021,4087791,35533075,73825,997101,735
Salvarsan Subs. doses37,3253,7911,6931,5108943853333261,05321847,5281,78749,315
PATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
For or at Centre-
Spirochaetes755342865...118183085915
Gonococci44,7032,1931,7659411,0402861135271,00924852,8251,63854,463
Wassermann24,6211,67499687753724913918549116429,9331,29431,227
Others11,1457462918792925085243212913,67326513,938
Total81,2244,6473,0542,7051,8755903377371,55054297,26l3,282100,543
For Practitioners.
Spirochaetes197...7.........1...34...34
Gonococci3,18726616273422172115173534,794184,812
Wassermann16,0211,5049325871097710318349543820,44925820,707
Others1,433311543323691381,962502,012
Total20,6601,8081,1091,76115410013319951679927,23932627,565