London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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ORIIG COLLECTION CAMPAIGN - SPRING 1972 Assessment of 10% samples
| Dispensed Medicine | Over the Counter | Tablets | Type of Preparation | % Total of Units Returned | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capsules | |||||||||||
| Bottles | Contents | Bots. | Cont. | Liq. | Other | External | |||||
| Alimentary System | 56 | 48 | 64 | 2092 | 4 | 61 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 12% | |
| Cardiovascular | 32 | 1 | 29 | 1342 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 4% | |||
| Analgestics Ant i-Inflammatory | 120 | 22 | 122 | 4569 | 16 | 528 | 3 | 1 | 17% | ||
| TranquilIisers/Sed. | 93 | 4 | 79 | 3099 | 14 | 721 | 3 | 1 | 12% | ||
| Stim./Anti-Depressants | 41 | 27 | 714 | 13 | 368 | 1 | 5% | ||||
| Hypnotic | 29 | 1 | 26 | 804 | 2 | 146 | 2 | 4% | |||
| E.N.T. | 37 | 13 | 26 | 384 | 5 | 104 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 6% | |
| Hormones | 10 | 9 | 319 | 1 | 1 | 1% | |||||
| G.U. | 30 | 2 | 29 | 921 | 3 | 46 | 4% | ||||
| Antibiotic/ Sulphonamides | 74 | 4 | 44 | 851 | 23 | 172 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9% | |
| Nutritional/Vitamin | 56 | 20 | 58 | 1539 | 11 | 140 | 7 | 9% | |||
| Respiratory | 9 | 26 | 13 | 398 | 4 | 130 | 17 | 3 | 4% | ||
| Ophthalmic | 15 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 2% | ||||||
| DermatologicaI | 42 | 9 | 15 | 36 | 1% | ||||||
| Anaesthetic | 5 | 4 | 6 | 65 | 2 | 3 | 1% | ||||
| Contraceptives | - | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | 7 | 4 | 442 | 1% | |||||||
| Unidentified | 25 | 1 | 21 | 1313 | 3 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 3% | ||
| TOTALS | 681 | 157 | 557 | 18852 | 100 | 2566 | 6 | 21 | 39 | 82 | 100% |