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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
Deptford 1927
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Maternity Home.
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1927:—
Cases in Home on 1st January, 1927, 11.
Cases admitted, 248.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by midwives, 238.
„ „ „ doctors, 10.
Cases in which medical advice sought, 85.
(a) Ante-natal, 3 (l, Ante-partum; 2, Albumnuria).
(b) During labour, 10 (instrumental delivery).
(c) After labour, 2 (Hæmatoma and Exhaustion). 61 Sutures
of Perineum.
(d) For infant, 2 (dangerous feebleness and Prematurity).
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours, 3.
Cases of Pemphigus Neonatorum, Nil.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Nil.
Inflammation (eyes), Nil.
Infants not entirely breast fed, Nil.
Maternal deaths, Nil.
Foetal deaths, Stillborn, 4; Prematurity, 2.
Ante-Natal Clinic Statistics, 1927. Attendances during the years: —
| 1926. | 1927 | |
| New Cases | 499 | 557 |
| Total Attendances | 2,292 | 2,241 |
| Normal pregnancies | 155 | |
| Anæmia | 44 | |
| Albuminaria | 84 | |
| Ante-partum hæmorrhage | 4 | |
| Breech presentations | 9 | |
| Bronchitis | 5 | |
| Dental caries only | 98 | |
| „ „ with other defects | 125 | |
| Dyspepsia | 12 | |
| Fibroids | 5 | |
| Carried forward | 541 | |