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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
Barking 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The following is a summary of notifications received from midwives:—
| Medical Help | 191 |
| Deaths of Mother or Child | 10 |
| Laying out the Dead | 6 |
| Still-births | 19 |
| Liability to be a source of Infection | 16 |
| Artificial Feeding | 3 |
| 245* |
*of these, 34 notifications were received from the Upney Maternity
Hospital. This figure is considerably smaller than for previous years
on account of the fact that, on 7th May, 1937, approval was obtained
for the Upney Maternity Pavilion, to be recognised for the purposes of
the Central Midwives Board Rule E.2.
Rule E.2 exempts a midwife who is exercising her calling under the supervision
of a duly appointed resident medical officer within a hospital approved by the
Central Midwives Board from certain rules, including the one which requires her to
send for medical aid in certain circumstances, to which she would otherwise be
subject.
The following is a summary of the 191 cases in which medical help was sought Mother:-
| Anaesthetic | 23 |
| Engorged Breast | 2 |
| Haemorrhage-—Ante-partum | 5 |
| Post-partum | 6 |
| Malpresentations | 19 |
| Miscarriage | 1 |
| Prolonged labour | 19 |
| Rise of temperature | 9 |
| Retained placenta | 2 |
| Ruptured perineum | 27 |
| Uterine inertia | 3 |
| Miscellaneous causes | 22 |
| 138 |