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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: Table VI

Table VI

Complaint for which Admitted.Patients remaining in Hospital on Jan. 1st, 1934.Patients admitted and discharged in 1934.Patients remaining in Hospital on Jan. 1st, 1935.Analysis of all Cases admitted in 1934 whether discharged or not during the year.
Total.RecoveredDied.Total.RecoveredDied.Total.RecoveredDied.TotalRecoveredDied.Case Mortality.Average No. of days in Hospital.
Scarlet Fever89899688265137137...96896350.537
Diphtheria3533254642519102102...546527193.535
Enteric Fever11...33............33......27
Puerperal Fever.........1210111...121118.329
Erysipelas55...4642311...464337.417
Measles11...61574.........615746.623
Rubella.........99............99......15
Encephalitis Lethargica.........1...1.........1...1100.018
C.S.M.........321.........32133.326
Whooping Cough11...746410.........74641013.333
Chicken Pox.........1010............1010......19
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.........22............22......15
Mumps.........22............22......10
Infantile Paralysis.........21......1...22......8
Dysentery.........11............11......11
Marasmus..........................................
No Disease.........1616............1616.........
Total132130217561470442422421756171244