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Croydon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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BOROUGH HOSPITAL.
Table A gives a Summary of the cases treated at the Hospital
daring 1939. 797 patients were ;admittad and discharged which,
together with the patients in at the commencement of 1939 (26) gives
a total of 813 cases dealt with. 57 died giving a case mortality
for the Hospital of 3.3% as against 24.5% in 1933.
During 1939 a total of 65 cases was admitted from Penge and these
are included in the Table. The hospital is a recognised training
school for nurses. During the year 3 probationers passed the
preliminary examination and 3 the final examination.
One of the wards (F.Ward) was equipped as a First Aid Post. Two
air raid shelters were built in the grounds, and other precautions
included the sand-bagging of the wards and administrative blocks, the
provision of tanks filled with water at various points in the Hospital
grounds and fire fighting appliances.
During the year 9 cases were operated for tonsils and adenoids and
5 for acute mastoiditis. 3 cases had uterine drainage performed and
1 case had blood transfusion performed.
TABLE A.
| Patients remaining in hospital 1.1.1940. | Patients admitted arid discharged in 1939. | Patients admitted in 1939 and remaining in Hospital l.l.40. | Analyses of cases whether admitted or discharged'in the year. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Recovered | Died . | Total | Rocovered | Died | Total | ' Recovered | Died | Total | Recovered | Died | Case mortality | Average No. days in. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 50 | 50 | 270 | 270 | 9 | 9 | 279 | 279 | 36.7 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 53 | 53 | 315 | 298 | 177 | 11 | 11 | 326 | 309 | 17 | 8.9 | 38.2 | ||
| Enteric Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 | 37.1 | ||||||
| Para typhoid fever | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 | 33.0 | ||||
| Puerperal Fever | 11 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 18.2 | 25.2 | ||||||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15.6 | |||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 12.5 | 11. 7 | ||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18. | |||||||||
| Rubella | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 14.4 | |||||||||
| C.S.M. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3.3 | 7.3 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 29 | 27 | 2 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 6.9 | 36.0 | ||||||
| Chicken pox | 4 | 4 | 47 | 46 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 51 | 50 | 1 | 1.9 | 20 | ||
| Ophthalmia | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | ||||||||
| Mumps | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 14.5 | |||||||
| Tonsillitis | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 30.8 | |||||||
| Anterior | ||||||||||||||
| poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 56.5 | |||||||
| Dysentery | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 23.2 | |||||||
| Pemphigus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 51. | |||||||||
| Otorrhoea | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 9. | |||||||||
| Cellulitis of leg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| Tuberculosis | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 36. | |||||||||
| Vincent's angina | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.4 | |||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3. | |||||||||
| No disease | 20 | 20 | 20 | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 115 | 115 | 787 | 760 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 813 | 786 | 27 | ||||
| The average number of days of each patient in Hospital for all classes of patients was 24.5 days compared with 22,6 days in 1938. | ||||||||||||||