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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: Table V.

Table V.

Complaint for which admitted.Patients remaining in Hospital on 1st January, 1937.Patients admitted and discharged in 1937.Patients admitted during 1937 and remaining in Hospital on 1st January, 1938Analysis of all Cases admitted in 1937, whether discharged or not during the year.
Total.Recovered.Died.Total.Recovered.Died.Total.Recovered.Died.Total.Recovered.Died.Case Mortality.Average No. of days in Hospital.
Scarlet Fever4949...72872627170179979720.236
Diphtheria3131...2972841378771375362133.536
Enteric Fever.........2515103936364541015.636.9
Para Typhoid B..........76133...109110.033.2
Puerperal Pyrexia.........66............66......14
Puerperal Fever.........22202.........222029.121.6
Erysipelas.........27261.........272613.714.7
Measles.........53494...1...545047.422
Rubella11...33............33......12
C.S.M.11...725.........72571.417.4
Whooping Cough44...21183...1...2219313.635
Chicken Pox22...3434............3434......20.3
Ophthalmia.........66...11...77......26.4
Mumps11...1010...22...1212......18.2
Tonsillitis.........11............11......9
Anterior-poliomyelitis.........33............33......30.6
Encephalitis Lethargica.........211.........21150.011
Pemphigus.........44............44......13
Dermatitis.........33............33......26.5
Acute Laryngitis..................11...11......23
Influenza.........22............22......8.5
Bullous Impetigo11....................................
No Disease.........3535............3535.........
TOTALS9090...129612544219719251493145142......