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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
Ilford 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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| Prolapsed cord | 2 |
| Severed cord | 1 |
| Impacted shoulders | 2 |
| Episiotomy | 5 |
| Persistent occipito posterior | 9 |
| Foetal distress | 6 |
| Uterine inertia | 5 |
| Prolonged labour | 22 |
| Maternal distress | 1 |
| Placenta praevia | 2 |
| *Ante- partum haemorrhage and transverse lie | 1 |
| Ante-partum haemorrhage | 1 |
| Post- partum haemorrhage | 2 |
| Adherent placenta | 1 |
* These conditions were diagnosed on admission to the Home. The other conditions were diagnosed after admission.
| (c) After labour 68 | Ruptured perineum | 49 |
| Internal lacerations | 1 | |
| Puerperal mania | 1 | |
| Varicose veins | 3 | |
| Mastitis | 4 | |
| Influenza | 1 | |
| Tonsillitis | 1 | |
| Pneumonia | 1 | |
| Pleurisy | 1 | |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 4 | |
| Post-partum haemorrhage | 2 | |
| (d) For infant 12 | Melaena neonatorum | 3 |
| Dangerous feebleness | 7 | |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | |
| Conjunctivitis | 1 |
There were 8 deaths of infants in the Home, from the following causes:—
| Congenital debility and prematurity | 4 |
| Cerebral congestion, compression at birth | 1 |
| Atelectasis and prematurity | 1 |
| Eclamptic convulsions and prematurity | 1 |
| Accidental suffocation by meconium whilst being born | 1 |
The average stillbirth rate at the Maternity Home for the
past four years was 2.69 per cent., compared with 2.76 per cent.
for births elsewhere in the Ilford district. Stillbirths were first
registerable on July 1st, 1927. At the East London Maternity Hospital
for a period of four years from the year 1925, comprising
10,376 oases, the stillbirth rate was 2.7 per cent. of all births. The