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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 1945
[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 | ||
| Glands | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | |
| Kidney | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Peritoneum | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | ||||
| Miliary | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Abdominal | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Spine | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Sacro iliac joint | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Knee | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| 26 | |||||||||
| Venereal. | |||||||||
| Gonorrhoea | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Syphilis | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | |
| 7 | |||||||||
| Violence. | |||||||||
| Fractured limbs | - | - | 5 | 103 | 15 | 21 | 144 | ||
| Fractured spine | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||
| Fractured malleolus | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Fractured skull | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Fractured ribs | - | 4 | 5 | - | 9 | ||||
| Fractured clavicle | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Fractured pelvis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Fractured sacrum | 1 | - | 1 | ||||||
| Fractured nasal bones | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Fractured lumber transverse process | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Minor injuries | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | 7 | |
| Contusions and abrasions | - | - | - | - | 10 | 16 | 1 | - | 27 |
| Sprain | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - | 8 |
| Bruises | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 5 |
| Dislocation | - | 3 | 9 | 2 | 14 | ||||
| Gun shot wound | - | 2 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 31 | |||