Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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The following list shows the disabilities from which the 247 applicants were suffering and the number of cases in each category that were helped during the year:—
Disability. | No. of Cases. |
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Maternity | 162 |
General debility | 11 |
Post-operative debility | 9 |
Arthritis | 7 |
Heart disease | 6 |
Bronchitis | 6 |
Cancer | 5 |
Phlebitis | 3 |
Nervous debility | 3 |
Cerebral haemorrhage | 3 |
Hypertension | 3 |
Anaemia | 2 |
Senile decay | 2 |
Sturgeon Weber's disease | 2 |
Erythema nodosum | 2 |
Debility following confinement | 2 |
Asthma | 2 |
Fracture of leg | 2 |
Ulcerative colitis | 1 |
Appendicectomy | 1 |
Sciatica | 1 |
Breast abscess | 1 |
Cerebral thrombosis | 1 |
Acute mastitis | 1 |
Postherpetic neuralgia | 1 |
Thyroneurosis | 1 |
Pleurisy | 1 |
Recurrent jaundice | 1 |
Advanced pregnancy | 1 |
Leg injury | 1 |
Duodenal ulcer | 1 |
Lumbago | 1 |
Pneumonia | 1 |