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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 | ||
| Metrorrhagia | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||||
| Bartholin's abscess | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| Puerperal abscess | — | 1 | — | 1 | |||||
| Dysmenorrhoea | — | — | 2 | 5 | — | 7 | |||
| Uterine polypus | — | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Erosion of cervix | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Toxaemia | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Chr. Cervicitis | — | 10 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||||
| Deficient Pelvic floor | — | 15 | — | 15 | |||||
| Sub involution | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 263 | |||||||||
| Maternity. | |||||||||
| Deliveries | 755 | — | 5 | 760 | |||||
| Live births | 704 | 12 | 716 | ||||||
| Delivered before admission | 22 | 22 | |||||||
| Maternity cases undelivered | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| For version | — | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 | ||||
| Pyelitis of pregnancy | — | — | 13 | 11 | 1 | 25 | |||
| Albuminuria do. | — | — | 43 | 3 | 2 | 48 | |||
| False labour pains | — | — | 36 | 12 | 9 | 57 | |||
| Pseudocyesis | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| Ante partum haemorrhage | — | — | — | 20 | 16 | — | 36 | ||
| Vesicular mole | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
| Ectopic gestation | — | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| H.B.P. of Pregnancy | 22 | — | 22 | ||||||
| Vomiting of do. | — | — | — | 30 | 3 | — | 33 | ||
| Puerperal sepsis | — | 2 | — | 2 | |||||
| 1742 | |||||||||