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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 1946
[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 | ||
| Pelvic rectal junction | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Spleen | — | — | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Lip | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Thyroid | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ileo-caecal junction | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Caecum | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Glioma of brain | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 244 | |||||||||
| Circulatory (Blood). | |||||||||
| Anaemia | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | ||||
| Septicaemia | — | 1 | 2 | — | - | 3 | |||
| Hyperpiesia | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | |||
| Pernicious Anaemia | — | 6 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 7 | |
| Pyaemia | 3 | — | — | 3 | |||||
| Thrombosis | — | 14 | 11 | 25 | |||||
| Phlebitis | 7 | — | - | — | 7 | ||||
| Gangrene | — | — | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Varicose veins | — | — | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Leukaemia | — | 1 | 4 | — | 5 | ||||
| Naevus | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| Epistaxis | 13 | - | - | 13 | |||||
| Beri-beri | — | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| Malaria | 1 | 19 | 20 | ||||||
| Purpura rheumatica | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Blood transfusion | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Haematoma | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| 116 | |||||||||
| Circulatory (Heart) | |||||||||
| Myocardial Degen: | 19 | 2 | 101 | 122 | |||||
| Hypertension | 29 | 3 | 3 | — | 35 | ||||
| Arterio sclerosis | — | 21 | 2 | 25 | - | 48 | |||
| Endocarditis | 2 | — | 2 | 4 | |||||