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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 | ||
| Amputations | 3 | — | 3 | ||||||
| Lacerations | — | 16 | 1 | 17 | |||||
| 372 | |||||||||
| Venereal. | |||||||||
| Syphilis | 13 | 2 | 1 | 16 | |||||
| Gonorrhoea | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | |||||
| 19 | |||||||||
Table
| Operations Performed. | Number. |
|---|---|
| Suture of perforated duodenal ulcer | 8 |
| Suture of perforated gastric ulcer | 3 |
| Appendicectomy | l66 |
| Drainage of appendix abscess | 6 |
| Caecostomy | 6 |
| Gastrectomy | 1 |
| Resection of Colon | 5 |
| Cholecystectomy | 11 |
| Cholecystostomy | 5 |
| Reduction of Intussusception | 1 |
| Excision of fistula | 2 |
| Colostomy | 6 |
| Drainage for General peritonitis | 1 |
| Gastro-jejunostomy | 5 |
| Sigmoidoscopy | 17 |
| Excision of haemorrhoids | 5 |
| Herniotomy | 28 |
| For acute obstruction | 11 |
| Excision Meckel's diverticulum | 1 |
| Enterectomy | 1 |
| Laparotomy (Carcinatomosis, etc.) | 25 |
| Fistula-in-ano | 1 |
| 315 | |