Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The Consultant Obstetrician was called in in 12 cases of grave emergency, particulars of which are set out below:—
Cæsarean section | 5 | Fits (eclamptic) | 1 |
Ante-partum hæmorrhage | 1 | Torn perineum | 1 |
Deformity | 1 | Hydramnios | 2 |
Special examination | 1 |
Still Birth—
Feebleness | 1 |
Breech | 2 |
Prematurity | 2 |
Cord round neck | 1 |
Malpresentation | 1 |
Deformity of skull and spine | 1 |
8 |
Died within 10 days—
Prematurity | 2 |
„ breech | 1 |
„ congenital atelectasis | 1 |
Cerebral hæmorrhage | 1 |
5 |
District Midwifery Service.
During 1932 there were 190 cases attended in their own homes
by the District Midwife as compared with 185 in the previous year,
an increase of 5 cases.
Particulars relating to this Service during the year are set out below:—
Total number of cases attended in the district | 190 |
Average number of visits to each case | 18 |
Number of cases delivered by:— | |
(a) Midwife | 168 |
(b) Doctors | 18 |
(c) Born before arrival | 4 |
Number of cases where medical assistance was called for, with reasons for requiring assistance:—
(a) Ante-Natal—2. | (c) After Labour—17. | ||
Illness | l | Ruptured perineum | 10 |
Ante-partum hæmorrhage | l | Post-partum hæmorrhage | 3 |
2 | Rise of temperature | 4 | |
17 | |||
(b) During Labour—18. | |||
Prolonged labour | 9 | (d) For Infant—18. | |
Retained placenta | 2 | Dangerous feebleness | 4 |
Complicated breech | 2 | Discharge from eye | 9 |
? malpresentation | 1 | Asphyxia pallida | 1 |
Foetal distress | 1 | Poor colour at birth | 1 |
Premature labour | 1 | Septic spots | 1 |
Uterine inertia | 1 | Hæmorrhage | 1 |
Free loss | 1 | Chest trouble | 1 |
18 | 18 | ||
Number of cases of— | |||
Puerperal sepsis | Nil | ||
Puerperal pyrexia | 2 | ||
Maternal deaths | Nil | ||
Still births | 2 | ||
Deaths of infants within 10 days (Feebleness). | 1 |