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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TableV.

TableV.

Complaint for which admitted.Patients remaining in Hospital on 1st January, 1938Patients admitted and discharged in 1938Patients admitted during 1938 and remaining in Hospital on 1st January, 1939Analysis of Cases admitted 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 Fever7170162462045050...67467040.537.7
Diphtheria78771408391175353...461444173.734.9
Enteric Fever393631064.........106440.045.3
Para Typhoid B33...11...11...22...38
Puerperal Pyrexia.........55............55......12.8
Puerperal Fever.........1111............1111......28
Erysipelas.........3129222...333126.312.5
Measles11...75714.........757145.517
Rubella.........55............55......11
C.S.M..........844.........84450.020.3
Whooping Cough11...47434.........474348.535
Chicken Pox.........7069144...747310.123.6
Ophthalmia1......55...22...77......27.2
Mumps22...1111...11...1212......21.3
Tonsillitis.........22...11...33......9.5
Anterior-poliomyelitis.........54111...65...0.124.7
Encephalitis Lethargica..........................................
Pemphigus.........77............77......7.2
Dysentery.........1111............1111......9.6
Dermatitis.........33............33......12
No Disease.........2222............2222.........
Acute Laryngitis11....................................
Totals19719251361132041115115...1476143541......