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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnoses in Cases Treated | Medical. | Surgical. | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | ||
| Circulatory (Heart and Vessels). | |||||||||
| Varicose veins | 2 | 12 | 14 | ||||||
| Gangrene | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Epistaxis | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| Phlebitis | 15 | 1 | — | — | 16 | ||||
| Thrombosis | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 4 | ||
| Myocarditis | 15 | 1 | 15 | 31 | |||||
| Endocarditis | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 | ||||
| Auricular fibrillation | 11 | 10 | 21 | ||||||
| Ruptured heart | — | 1 | — | 1 | |||||
| Aortic incompetence | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Arterio sclerosis | 8 | 2 | 8 | 18 | |||||
| Congenital heart disease | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||||
| Aortic aneurysm | — | 1 | — | 1 | |||||
| Myocardial degeneration | 29 | 15 | 152 | — | 196 | ||||
| Hyperpiesia | — | 29 | 29 | ||||||
| Pericarditis | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Mitral stenosis | — | 17 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 20 |
| Lymphangitis | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| Heart Block | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 384 | |||||||||
| Constitutional. | |||||||||
| Debility | 17 | 16 | — | — | — | 33 | |||
| Nutritional disorders | 11 | 12 | — | 2 | — | — | 25 | ||
| Obesity | 1 | — | — | 1 | |||||
| Marasmus | 11 | 11 | |||||||
| Rickets | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Amyloid disease | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||||