Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Maternity Home. Particulars of cases admitted during the five years 1921-25.
1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | |
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Cases admitted | 35 | 129 | 200 | 176 | 254 |
Average stay | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks |
Cases delivered : | |||||
By Midwives | 34 | 120 | 188 | 168 | 243 |
By Doctor Hill | 1 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 11 |
Cases in which medical advice was sought (especially Dr. Hill) | Nil | 11 | 23 | Nil | 25 |
(a) Ante-Natal | |||||
(l) Ante-partum Hæmorrhage | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil | Nil |
(2) Threatened abortion, Albuminuria and Influenza | Nil | Nil | Nil | 4 | Nil |
(3) Excessive vomiting | Nil | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil |
(b) During labour | |||||
(1) Prolonged labour | Nil | 8 | 12 | Nil | 15 |
(2) Uterine inertia | 1 | 1 | 4 | Nil | 2 |
(c) After labour. | |||||
(1) Post-partum Hæmorrhage | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil | Nil |
(2) Adherent placenta | Nil | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil |
(3) Puerperal insanity | Nil | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil |
(4) Pneumonia | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 2 |
(d) For Infant. | |||||
(l) Malformation | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
(2) Asphyxia | Nil | 1 | 1 | Nil | 8 |
(3) Feebleness | Nil | Nil | 3 | 4 | Nil |
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Temperature rose above 100·4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse | 1 Influenza | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 (Recovered fully) | Nil | Nil | Nil | 1 |
Inflammation (eyes) | 1 | Nil | Nil | 1 | Nil |
Not entirely breast fed | 1 | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
(1) Insufficient breast milk | Nil | 2 | 1 | 1 | Nil |
(2) Phthisis | Nil | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil |
Maternal deaths | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Fœtal Deaths. | |||||
(a) Still born | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
(b) Premature | Nil | 1 | 4 | 2 | Nil |
(c) Congenital defect | Nil | 1 | Nil | Nil | Nil |
(d) Fœtal death | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 1 |