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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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| Syphilis | Soft Chancre | Gonorrhoea | Non-venereal or undiagnosed conditions. | Totals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Totals | |||
| 5. | Number of cases disohargod after completion of treatment and fisal tests of cure or after diagnosis as nan-venereal. | 11 | 11 | 105 | 40 | 180 | 163 | 296 | 214 | 510 | |||
| 6. | Number of cases which ceased to attend before completion of treatment and were, on first attendance, saffering from:- | ||||||||||||
| Syphil is, primary " , secendary | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| " , lateht in first year of infection | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| " all later stages | 13 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 22 | ||||||||
| Congenital | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 11 | ||||||||
| Soft Chancre Gonorrhoea 1st year of infection | 18 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 22 | ||||||||
| later | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 7. | Number of cases which ceased to attend after completion of treatment but before final tests of cure. | 6 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 28 | 14 | 42 | |||||
| 8. | Number of cases transferred to other Centres or to institutions, or to care of private practitioners. | 16 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 38 | ||||
| 9. | Number of cases remaining under treatment or observation on 31st December | 75 | 67 | 28 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 112 | 76 | 188 | |||
| Totals of Items 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 | 126 | 115 | 181 | 65 | 189 | 170 | 496 | 350 | 846 | ||||