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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Table XLII.
| Name. | Day of Disease. | Condition on Admission. | Subsequent progress. | Date of Death. Days after Admission. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | D.T. (M.) 2½ years. | 5 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + cyanosis. | Showed signs of heart failure on admission, and died suddenly during night. | 12 hours. |
| (2) | E.B. (M.) 5½ years. | 2 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + cyanosis, rhinorr-hœa. | Toxic, restless and vomiting, increasing heart failure, death by this. | 3 days. |
| (3) | S.G. (F.) 5 years. | ? | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + rhinorrhœa. | Developed eye paralysis and late heart failure, collapsed suddenly from this. | 47 days. |
| (4) | F.H. (M.) 12 years. | 5 | Extensive membrane bull neck, rhinorrhœa. | Developed heart failure 14 hours after admission, and died from this. | 2 days. |
| (5) | S.R. (M.) 7 years. | 4 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + cyanosis. | Developed heart failure 2 days after admission and died from this. | 4 days. |
| (6) | V.B. (M.) 6 years. | 3 | Extensive membrane glands of neck, cyanosis. | Toxic, started vomiting 1 week after admission + pulse became irregular, died from progressive heart failure. | 10 days. |
| (7) | P.M. (M.) 10½ years. | 5 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + foetor, rhinorrœa, cyanosis. | Developed palatal paralysis, facial paralysis and late heart failure which was progressive, causing death. | 43 days. |
| (8) | E.H. (F.) 7 years. | 4 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + rhinorrhœa. | Toxic, showed signs of heart failure 5 days after admission which was progressive till death. | 13 days. |
| (9 | R.C. (M.) 4½ years. | 4 | Extensive membrane glands of neck + + foetor. | Haemorrhagic case, bleeding from nose and throat, and general petechia?, increasing heart failure till death. | 5 days. |
| (10) | J.C. (F.) 5 years. | 5 | Extensive membrane bull neck, cyanosis. | Moribund on admission, dying 5 hours later. | 5 hours. |
| (11) | F.S. (M.) 2 yeare. | 5 | V. toxic extensive membrane bull neck, rhinorrhœa + + | Moribund on admission, dying 6½ hours later, bleeding from month, nose and eyes. | 6½ hours. |
| (12) | J.T (F.) 5 years. | 2 | Croupy, recession, v. restless, and cynosed. | Tracheotomy 2 hours after admission, but showed increasing heart failure, dying 4 days after admission. | 4 days. |