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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnoses in Cases Treated | Medical | Surgical | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nervous and Sensory. | |||||||||
| Chorea | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| Hemiplegia | 9 | 3 | 3 | 15 | |||||
| Spina Bifida | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tabes Dorsalis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Amnesia | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Cerebral haemorrhage | 4 | 3 | 55 | 02 | |||||
| Disseminated sclerosis | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Neurasthenia | 2 | 12 | 3 | 17 | |||||
| Meningitis | 5 | 5 | |||||||
| Neurosis | 2 | 13 | 2 | 17 | |||||
| Neuralgia | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Headache | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| Paralysis Agitans | 4 | 2 | 5 | — | — | 11 | |||
| Cerebral tumour | _ | — | — | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Cerebral thrombosis | — | 2 | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | 12 |
| Neuritis | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Cerebral embolism | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Cerebellar abscess | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 3 |
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Post encephalitis | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Congenital athetosis | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Hysteria | — | 7 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Nervous debility | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| 197 | |||||||||
| Poisoning | 11 | 3 | 2 | 16 | |||||