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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Operation Performed. Numbir.
EYE.
Iridectomy 2
Evisceration of eye 1
BONES AND JOINTS.
Drainage for acute purulent arthritis 1
Drainage for sinus beneath knee 1
Reduction of fractured limbs 3
Application of caliper 1
Application of plasters 14
Resetting of fractures 2
Transfixion pins through tibia 6
Transfixion pins through os calcis 2
Arthrodesis 2
For Osteo myelitis 2
Wiring of fractured patella 1
Manipulation of limbs ®
Amputation of limbs 2
Bone graft1
Sequestrectomy 4
ABDOMINAL.
Operation Performed. Numbir.
Appendicectomy 150
Drainage of appendix abscess 13
Drainage for general peritonitis . 3
Gastro-jejunostomy 5
Ruptured rectus abdominis 1
Paracentesis abdominis
Cholecystectomy "
Intussusception '
Sigmoidoscopy *
Laparotomy "
Suture of perforated duodenal ulcer "
Suture of perforated gastric ulc J
Colostomy *
Caecostomy •
Ligature of haemorrhoids
Excision of haemorrhoids
Rectal examination J
Pancreatic cyst j
Closure of faecal fistula '
Resection of colon
Repair of ventral hernia :
Repair of anal fissure
Radical cure of strangulated hernia ®
Herniotomy .
Removal of rectal polyp.
Partial gastrectomy 2
Enterostomy