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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Diagnoses In Cases Treated | Medical. | Surgical. | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | ||
| Naevus | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Epistaxis ... | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Circulatory (Heart) | 105 | ||||||||
| Fatty Degen. of Heart | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Myocardial Degen : | 2 | 21 | 14 | 116 | - | - | - | - | 153 |
| Hypertension | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 13 |
| Aortic incompetence | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Arterio sclerosis | - | 6 | 11 | 16 | - | - | - | - | 33 |
| Aortic stenosis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Endocarditis | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Auricular fibrillation | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Myocarditis | - | 5 | 2 | 24 | - | - | - | - | 31 |
| Mitral stenosis | - | 6 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| Carditis | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Congestive heart failure | - | 11 | - | 39 | - | - | - | - | 50 |
| Heart failure | - | 4 | 3 | 44 | - | - | - | - | 51 |
| Congenital heart disease | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Tachycardia | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Cardiac disease | - | 6 | 7 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| Angina | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Banti's disease | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Rheumatic Carditis | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| Constitutional. | 398 | ||||||||
| Diabetes Mellitus | 2 | 23 | 6 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 36 |
| Debility | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Nutritional disorder | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Marasmus | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| Malnutrition | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Diabetic coma | - | 5 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Cachexia | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 66 | |||||||||