London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Dagenham 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

59
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births.
1,924 notifications of live births were received during the year
(male 963, females 961).
442 notifications (including still births) were received from
medical practitioners and parents, and 1,521 from midwives.
In addition, information was received of 183 births outside
this area.

Table: The following list shows where most of these births occurred

The following list shows where most of these births occurred

Oldchurch Hospital87
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford19
East End Maternity Hospital15
Plaistow Maternity Hospital13
Upney Hospital, Barking7
London Hospital5

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Stillbirths.
39 stillbirths were notified (23 male, 16 female), the
corresponding figures for registration being 33 and 30. The rate
per 1,000 of total population registered 0.69, the same figure as for
England and Wales.
The causes of the stillbirths were:—
(a) Maternal Causes—13.
Albuminuria, 5 ; anaemia and debility, 2 ; hypecmesis, 1 ;
antepartum haemorrhage, 4 ; fright 1.
(b) Prematurity—5.
Falls, 4 ; Influenza, 1.
(c) Death of fœus during labour—24.
Abnormal presentation, 3 ; complications of
delivery, 3 ; disproportion of head to pelvis, 5 ; cord
round ncck, 1 ; other difficulties in labour, usually
necessitating application of forceps, 8; unknown
causes, 4.