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Ilford 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Maternity Cases—Queen Mary's Hospital.
There has been an arrangement since July, 1923, with the
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, for the treatment of Maternity
cases requiring operative or other treatment which cannot be carried
out in the Ilford Maternity Home, and cases which require admission
to a Maternity Home and cannot be dealt with at our own institution,
the agreed charge being 7s. per day.
No cases were, however, treated under this arrangement
during 1929.
District Midwife.
During 1929 the District Midwife attended 116 cases; of these 14 were delivered by doctors and 96 by herself; 6 were born before arrival of either doctor or midwife; a doctor was called in, however, in 32 of the 102 cases delivered by the District Midwife, for the following causes:—
| (a) Ante-natal 2 | Pre-eclampsia | 2 |
| Prolonged labour | 7 | |
| Extended breech | 1 | |
| Premature labour | 1 | |
| (6) During labour 13 | Multiple pregnancy | 1 |
| Uterine inertia | 1 | |
| Foetal distress | 1 | |
| General condition | 1 | |
| (c) After labour 15 | Post-partum haemorrhage | 3 |
| Varicose veins | 2 | |
| Ruptured perineum | 9 | |
| ? appendicitis .. | 1 | |
| (d) For infant 2 | Blue asphyxia | . 1 |
| Septic spot | 1 |
The 116 cases attended were in the following wards:—North
Hainault, 41; Cranbrook, 5; Park, 19; Seven Kings, 21; South
Hainault, 6; Loxford, 8; Clementswood, 12; Goodmayes, 4.
Of the infants born there was 1 stillbirth of a Macerated foetus.
Extensions of Maternity Home.
In October, 1928, I was requested to report to the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee as to the necessity of the extension of the
Maternity Home. My Report was considered in January, 1929.
I recommended—