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Croydon 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Table XXXVI.
| Complaint for which Admitted. | Patients remaining in Hospital on Jan. 1st, 1932. | Patients admitted and discharged in 1912. | Patients lemaining in Hospital on Jan. 1st, 1933. | Analysis of all Cases admitted in 1935 whether discharged or not during the year. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total, | Recovered | Died. | Total. | Recovered | Hied. | Total. | Recove-ed | 1 ied. | Total | Recovered | Died. | Case Mortality. | Average No. of days in Hospital | |
| Scarlet Fever | 46 | 46 | 387 | 318 | 69 | 68 | 387 | 386 | 1 | 39.7 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 29 | 29 | 162 | 135 | 9 | 18 | 18 | 162 | 153 | 9 | 37 | |||
| Typhoid Fever | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 50 | ||||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 5 | 5 | 30 | ||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 3 | 14.7 | |||||||
| Measles | 157 | 13 | 157 | 156 | 22.5 | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 10 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 32.1 | |||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | 48 | 40 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 40 | 8 | 41.3 | |||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 46 | ||||||||
| Chicken Pox | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Mumps | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 29 | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| T.B. Broncho-Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 37 | |||||||||
| Infantile Palsy | 2 | 2 | 42.5 | |||||||||||
| Pemphigus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| White Leg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| ? Meningitis | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |||||||||
| German Measles | 51 | 12.1 | ||||||||||||
| No Disease | 15 | 1 | 1 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Total | 82 | 82 | 912 | 777 | 24 | 1ll | 108 | 912 | 885 | 27 | ||||
SCARLET FEYER.
The total cases admitted as Scarlet Fever during the year was
887. This was a decrease of 144 on last year's total. 366 were
admitted from the Borough and 21 from outside the Borough-