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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 | ||
| Infectious. | |||||||||
| Influenza | 17 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| Measles | — | 4 | — | 4 | |||||
| Croup | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | |||
| Diphtheria | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | 5 | ||
| Whooping cough | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| Chicken-pox | 1 | 13 | 14 | ||||||
| Typhoid fever | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 5 | — | — | 5 | |||||
| Ophthalmia | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 59 | |||||||||
| Ear, Nose and Throat. | |||||||||
| Otitis media | — | — | — | — | 36 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 48 |
| Mastoiditis | — | — | — | 18 | 10 | — | 3 | 31 | |
| Sinusitis | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
| Empyema of antrum | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| Quinsey | — | — | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Tonsillitis | 28 | 88 | 1 | 117 | |||||
| Rhinitis sicca | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| 202 | |||||||||
| Mental. | |||||||||
| Certified | 127 | 127 | |||||||
| Uncertified | 24 | 27 | 31 | 1 | 83 | ||||
| Epilepsy | 3 | 19 | 11 | 1 | — | — | 34 | ||