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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

Fulham 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]

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23
Maternal Mortality.
During the year investigations were made into
the causes of death in nine cases of Maternal
Mortality and the reports were transmitted to the
Maternal Mortality Committee.

Table: The following is a list of the cases with the causes of death:—

The following is a list of the cases with the causes of death:—

Occupation.Age.Date and Place of death.Cause of Death.
Wife of an electrical fitter28Dec. 31st, 1932, in hospital1.(a) Puerperal Septicaemia.
(b) Parametritis.
2.Confinement (10-12-32) full time live foetus.
Wife of a tin box maker25April 9th, in hospital1.(a) Post-Partum collapse.
(b) Ac. fulminating tox-aemia of pregnancy.
Spinster, general domestic servant24April 27th, in hospital1.(a) Puerperal Septicaemia.
(b) Parturition.
Wife of a slate machinist34May 15th, in hospital1.(a) Concealed accidental haemorrhage (uterine).
(b) Pregnancy.
Wife of a labourer35May 29th, in hospital1.(a) Ac. oedema of lungs.
(b) Eclampsia.
2.Partus, 29-5-33.
Wife of a milkman24July 8th, in hospital1.(a) Post-partum haemorrhage
(b) Retained placenta.
Wife of a chef.29Oct. 3rd, in hospital.1.(a) Shock. Childbirth.
(b) Instrumental delivery. Chloroform anaesthesia.
Wife of a builder's labourer39Nov. 3rd, in hospital1.(a) Pulmonary embolism.
(b) Puerperal pyaemia.
(c) Miscarriage.
Wife of a journeyman carpenter39Nov. 9th, in hospital.1.Pyaemia following delivery.