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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
Battersea 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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| Drop wrists | 2 | Anaemia neonatorum | 1 | |||
| Discharging wounds from for-ceps | 4 | Imperforate urethra | 1 | |||
| Watery eyes | 48 | |||||
| Hæmoptysis | 2 | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | |||
| Cardiac and pneumonia | 1 | Hydrocephalic | 2 | |||
| Feebleness | 6 | Convulsions | 4 | |||
| Syphilis | 3 | 80 | ||||
| Club feet | 2 | |||||
| Lax ligaments | 2 | |||||
| Number of maternal deaths (ruptured uterus) | 1 | |||||
| Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100.4° F. for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate | 36 | |||||
| Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia neonatorum with result of treatment (Both cured. No permanent damage to eyes.) | 2 | |||||
| Number of cases with discharge from eyes how-ever slight | 48 | |||||
| Number of infants not entirely breast fed | 9 | |||||
| Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis | Nil | |||||
| Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia (9 recovered, 1 result unknown) | 10 | |||||
| Number of foetal deaths (15 still-born, 10 within 14 days of birth) and their causes | 25 | |||||
| Eclampsia | 1 | Hæmoptysis | 2 | |||
| Breech presentations | 5 | Heart and chest | l | |||
| Acute partum hæmorrhage | 2 | Premature | 5 | |||
| Rupture of uterus | 1 | Asphyxia | 1 | |||
| Prolonged 2nd stage | 1 | Pernicious anaemia | 1 | |||
| Induction for contracted pelvis | 1 | |||||
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | |||||
| Prematurity after A.P.H. | 2 | |||||
| Cause unknown | 1 | |||||
The Consultant Obstetrician was called in in 32 cases of grave emergency, particulars of which are set out below:—
| Ante-partum haemorrhage | 4 | Malpresentat ions | 2 |
| Bougie induction | 2 | Pressure pain in coccyx | 1 |
| Caesarean section | 5 | Puerperal pyrexia | 6 |
| Caesarean section and sterility of uterus | 1 | Pyelitis | 1 |
| Severe œdematous condition of vulva and albuminuria | 1 | ||
| Complete tear of rectus muscle | 1 | ||
| Contracted pelvis | 1 | Tonic contraction and no dila-tation of cervix | 1 |
| Forceps delivery | 6 |
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Borough Treasurer for
the following statement of the cost of the Home during the financial
year ended 31st March, 1929:—