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Battersea 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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District Midwifery Service.
During 1935 there were 189 cases attended in their own homes
by the District Midwife as compared with 190 in the previous vear.
Particulars relating to this service during the year are set out below:—
| Total number of cases attended in the district | ... | 189 |
| Average number of visits to each case | ... | 14 |
| Number of cases:— | ||
| 169 | ||
| ... | — | |
| (c) Born before arrival | • • • | 16 |
| ... | 4 | |
| Total number of bookings in 1935 | ... | 210 |
| Number thereof cancelled or transferred | 31 | |
| confined during 1935 | 128 | |
| to be confined in 1936 | 51 | |
| 210 | ||
Number of cases where medical assistance was summoned,
with reasons for requiring assistance:—
(a) Ante-Natal—3.
Placenta praevia 3
3
(6) During Labour—26.
Prolonged labour 14
(?) Presentation (triplets) 1
Prematurity and (?) presentation
1
Abnormal breech presentation 4
Adherent placenta 2
Retained placenta, &c. 3
General condition 1
26
(c) After Labour—12.
Macerated foetus 2
Post-partum haemorrhage 3
Shock and ruptured perineum 1
Ruptured perineum 3
Other reasons 3
12
(d) For Infant—16.
Watery or sticky eyes 6
Prematurity and discharging
eye 1
Blue asphyxia and septic spots 1
Septic spots 1
Watery blisters 3
Rash 1
Hare-lip and cleft palate 1
Abrasion 1
Convulsions 1
16
Number of cases of—
Puerperal sepsis Nil
Puerperal pyrexia 1
Maternal deaths Nil
Still births 5
Deaths of infants within 10 days 3