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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 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: Special visits were made by the Consulting Obstetrician or his Deputy to 20 cases in the Ward Blocks as follows:—

Special visits were made by the Consulting Obstetrician or his Deputy to 20 cases in the Ward Blocks as follows:—

To perform Caesarean section operations10
To perform other operations8
For consultations2

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One mother confined in a Ward Block died from Acute cardiac failure
due to exhaustion in labour.
The maternal mortality rate for the Ward Blocks of the Home for the
five years from 1937 to 1941 is 1.67, as compared with the maternal mortality
rate in the district generally of 3.59, the rate in each case being calculated
on the total live births.
Other Maternity Hospitals.—122 cases were admitted to Oldchurch
County Hospital during 1941. The fee payable to the Essex County Council
is at the rate of 14/- per day.