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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | Totals | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||
| Totals of Items 5,6,7 and 8 (brought forward) | 37 | 31 | 26 | 4 | 307 | 621 | 370 | 656 | ||||||
| 9. Number of patients transferred to other Centres or Institutions or to private practitioners | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 13 | ||||||
| 10. Number of patients remaining under treatment or observation on 31st December | 33 | 71 | - | - | 4 | 27 | 37 | 98 | ||||||
| Totals of Items 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 | 77 | 109 | 33 | 6 | 317 | 652 | 427 | 767 | ||||||
| (These totals should agree with those of Items 1, 2, 3 and 4) 11. Number of patients included in Item 7 who failed to complete one course of treatment of either penicillin or of arsenic and bismuth and were suffering from:— (a) Acquired syphilis of less than 1 year's duration | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| (c) Congenital syphilis of less than 1 year's duration | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| 12. Number of attendances | 2109 | 2249 | 382 | 87 | 2891 | 2616 | 5382 | 4952 | ||||||
| (b) for intermediate treatment, e.g., dressings, etc. | 862 | 1481 | - | 21 | 807 | 1391 | 1669 | 2893 | ||||||
| Total Attendances | 2971 | 3730 | 382 | 108 | 3698 | 4007 | 7051 | 7845 | |||||||
| 13. Number of patients suffering from congenital syphilis in Item 3 above classified according to age | Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 years and over | Totals | |||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| 14. Pathological Work (a) Number of specimens examined at, and by the medical officer of, the Treatment Centre | Microscopical | Serum | ||||||||||||
| for Syphilis | for G'n'rh. | Cultura | for Syphilis Wr. & Kahn | for G'n'rh. | Cerebro. Spinal Fluid | |||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||
| 5 | 685 | 730 | 724 | 294 | 59 | |||||||||
| 15. Contacts attending for examination through the agency of | Syphilis (less than 1 year) | Syphilis (more than 1 year) | Gonorrhoea | Other Condition | ||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | ||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 51 | |||||||||
| 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 54 | ||||||||
| Totals | 13 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 1 3 | 105 | |||||||