Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Diagnoses in Cases Treated | Medical | Surgical | Total | ||||||
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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 |