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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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| Medical | Surgical | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnoses. | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Total |
| Gynaecological (Continued) | |||||||||
| Temination of Pregnancy | r | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Cyst on external os. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Haematocolpos | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Infantile Uterus | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Ruptured R. Tubal Pregnancy. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 397 | |||||||||
| Infectious. | |||||||||
| Influenza | 26 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 30 | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Sonne Dysentery | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Chicken-Pox | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 7 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Polio-Myelitis | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Flexner Dysentery | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Septicaemia | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Undulant Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Cellulitis | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | |||||
| 83 | |||||||||
| Maternity | |||||||||
| Deliveries | 862 | 4 | 866 | ||||||
| Live Births | 806 | 30 | 836 | ||||||
| Delivered before admission | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| For Version | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | |||||
| Pyelitis of Pregnancy | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| Albuminuria of Pregnancy | 4 | 12 | 1 | 17 | |||||
| False Labour Pains | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Ante Parturm Haemorrhage | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Ectopic Gestation | 5 | 5 | |||||||
| H.B.P. of Pregnancy | 2 | 21 | 1 | 24 | |||||
| Vomiting of Pregnancy | 11 | 8 | 1 | 20 | |||||
| Toxaemia of Pregnancy | 4 | 18 | 2 | 24 | |||||
| Ante Natal Observation | 5 | 31 | 21 | 57 | |||||
| Ante Natal Rest | 8 | 3 | 11 | ||||||
| Anaemia of Pregnancy | 10 | 10 | |||||||
| Hydramnios | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 1901. | |||||||||
| Mental | — | ||||||||
| Uncertified | 8 | 47 | 41 | 96 | |||||
| Certified | 53 | 53 | |||||||
| Loss of Memory | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Epilepsy | 3 | 23 | 9 | 35 | |||||
| M.D. | 2 | 13 | 15 | ||||||
| Mongolism | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| G.P.I | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Hysteria | 4 | 15 | 19 | ||||||
| Senile dementia | 4 | 10 | 1 | 15 | |||||
| Imbecile | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 243 | |||||||||
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