Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford page 123

Deptford 1925

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Maternity Home. Particulars of cases admitted during the five years 1921-25.

	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925
Cases admitted	35	129	200	176	254
Average stay	2 weeks	2 weeks	2 weeks	2 weeks	2 weeks
Cases delivered :
By Midwives	34	120	188	168	243
By Doctor Hill	1	8	12	8	11
Cases in which medical advice was sought (especially Dr. Hill)	Nil	11	23	Nil	25
(a) Ante-Natal
(l) Ante-partum Hæmorrhage	Nil	1	Nil	Nil	Nil
(2) Threatened abortion, Albuminuria and Influenza	Nil	Nil	Nil	4	Nil
(3) Excessive vomiting	Nil	Nil	1	Nil	Nil
(b) During labour
(1) Prolonged labour	Nil	8	12	Nil	15
(2) Uterine inertia	1	1	4	Nil	2
(c) After labour.
(1) Post-partum Hæmorrhage	Nil	1	Nil	Nil	Nil
(2) Adherent placenta	Nil	Nil	1	Nil	Nil
(3) Puerperal insanity	Nil	Nil	1	Nil	Nil
(4) Pneumonia	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	2
(d) For Infant.
(l) Malformation	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
(2) Asphyxia	Nil	1	1	Nil	8
(3) Feebleness	Nil	Nil	3	4	Nil
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Temperature rose above 100·4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse	1 Influenza	6	2	1	3
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum	1 (Recovered fully)	Nil	Nil	Nil	1
Inflammation (eyes)	1	Nil	Nil	1	Nil
Not entirely breast fed	1	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
(1) Insufficient breast milk	Nil	2	1	1	Nil
(2) Phthisis	Nil	Nil	1	Nil	Nil
Maternal deaths	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Fœtal Deaths.
(a) Still born	1	1	2	3	4
(b) Premature	Nil	1	4	2	Nil
(c) Congenital defect	Nil	1	Nil	Nil	Nil
(d) Fœtal death	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	1