London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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]
This page requires JavaScript
Continued from previous page...
| Diagnoses in Cases Treated | Medical. | Surgical. | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | Cured | Relieved | Unrelieved | Died | ||
| Imbecile | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Depression | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| Petit mal | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Grand mal | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Senile Dementia | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 267 | |||||||||
| Nervous and Sensory. | |||||||||
| Cerebral haemorrhage | - | 2 | - | 34 | - | - | - | - | 36 |
| Meningitis | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| Chorea | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Hemiplegia | - | 7 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 12 |
| Sciatica | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| Neurasthenia | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Neurosis | - | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 |
| Paralysis agitans | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Cerebral thrombosis | - | 21 | 3 | 47 | - | - | - | - | 71 |
| Neuritis | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| Convulsions | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Parkinsons disease | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Cerebral arterio-clerosis | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Paraplegia | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Encephalitis | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Cerebral abscess | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage | - | 3 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| Migraine | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Headache | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Bell's Palsy | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Disseminated sclerosis | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Pseudo tumour | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Cerebral tumour | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Paralysis | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |