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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Return relating to all persons who were treated at the Treatment Centre at Croydon during the Year ended the 31st December, 1939.
| Syphilis | Soft Chancre | Gonorrhoea | Non-venereal or undiagnosed conditions. | Totals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Totals | |||
| I. | Number of cases on 1st January under treatment or observation | 76 | 79 | 57 | 35 | 18 | 21 | 151 | 135 | 286 | |||
| 2. | Number of cases removed from the register during any previous year which returned during the year under report for treatment or observation of the same infection. | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 12 | ||||||
| 3. | Number of cases dealt with for the first time during 1939 (exclusive of cases under item 4) suffering from:- | ||||||||||||
| Syphilis, primary | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| " , secondary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| " , latent in 1st year of infection | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| " , all later stages | 23 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 34 | ||||||||
| " , Congenital | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | ||||||||
| Soft Chancre Gonorrhoea, 1st year of infection | 103 | 18 | 103 | 18 | 121 | ||||||||
| " , later | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||
| Non venereal conditions Conditions remaining undiagnosed at 31st December. | 171 | 149 | 171 | 149 | 320 | ||||||||
| 4. | Number of cases dealt with for the first time during the year under report known to have received treatment for the same infection, or to have been under observation at other Centres | 12 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 41 | |||||
| Total of items 1, 2, 3 and 4. | 126 | 115 | 181 | 65 | 189 | 170 | , | 350 | 846 | ||||