Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Cases sent to Residential Institutions:-
Name of Institution. | School Cases | M.C.W, Cases | Tuborcu1osis Cases, | Total | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No, in on 1st Jan,1941 | Admitted | Discharged | No. in on 1st Jan. 1941 | Admitted | ! Discharged | No. in on Ist Jan , 1941. | Admitted | Discharged | No. in on 1st Jan, 1341 | Admitted | Discharged | No. in on 1st Jan.1942. | |
Pyrford | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5s ls | 5 s | 6s | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Croydon General Hospital | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | la | Is | (la (Is | 1 | 6 | 7 | - |
Heritage Craft Schools | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2s | - | 2s | 3 | _ | 2 | 1 |
Pinner | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | -- | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Lord Mayor Treloar Hosp, | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1m | 1m | 1m | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Royal Soa-bathing Hosp. | - | - | - | - | - | - | (2s (1a | 4a | 2s 2a | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Eirchington | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Queon Mery's Hospital | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2s | 2s | 2s | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
Royal Nat. Orth. Hosp, | - | - | - | - | - | - | la | - | la | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Mayday Hosp, | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1s 3a | 1m 4a | 1m 4a 1s | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4c | 20 | 18 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 35 | 18 |
Conditions for which Patients were admitted to Hospitals with the results of Treatment.
Condition. | In on 1st Jan. 1941 | Admitted or transferred | Discharged | In on 1st Jan. 1942. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arrosted | Quiescent. | Improved | I.S.Q | Died | ||||
Infantile Peralysis. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Tubercular Joint Disease. | 23 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
Congenital Hip Disease | 4 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - |
Hemiplegia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Genu Valgum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pes Caves | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Talipes. | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 |
Rickets. | - | 1 | - | l | - | - | - | - |
Other Deformities | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Spastic Paraplegia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scoliosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Osteomyelitis | 2 | 1 | - | " | 1 | - | - | 2 |
30 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 21 |
The percentage of arrested casses was 33 1/3% , quiescent cases 14.3%, whilst 47.6%
were "improved".
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