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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 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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After Birth.
| Adherent Placenta | 7 | |
| Abortion | 5 | |
| Ruptured perineum | 28 | |
| Eclampsia | 1 | |
| Asthma | 1 | |
| Pleurisy | 1 | |
| Laryngitis | 1 | |
| Rise of Temperature | 6 | |
| 50 | ||
| For Infant. | ||
| Feebleness | 10 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 15 | |
| Phimosis | 5 | |
| Convulsions | 4 | |
| Deformity | 4 | |
| Injury | 1 | |
| Stillbirth | 1 | |
| 40 | ||
| Total | 137 | |
Under the Midwives Act, 1918, the Local Supervising Authority is
responsible for the payment of fees of doctors called in by midwives.
The fees so paid during the year amounted to £59 5s. An income scale
for the purposes of determining cases in which the whole or any portion
of the fees payable to doctors as aforesaid should be recovered was
adopted by the Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-Committee, and of the
above total of £59 5s. the patients were asked to contribute £21 6s. 6d.
SICK ROOM REQUISITES.
The sick room requisites are still available for use in the Borough
as detailed in the report for 1920.