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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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| Number of admissions.- | |
| For confinement | 480 |
| For ante-natal treatment (54* patients) | 60 |
| For post natal treatment (after confine-ment (elsewhere) | 1 |
| Total admissions | 541 |
| Number of confinements (one patient removed before confinement; one not yet confined at end of year) | 478 |
| Number of deliveries— | |
| By midwives | 444 |
| „ doctors | 32 |
| 476 | |
| Number born before arrival | 2 |
| Total births (including 7 pairs of twins) | 485 |
| Number of maternal deaths (Uraemia, obstetric shock) | 1 |
| Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum with result of treatment. (Cured) | 1 |
| Number of cases with discharge from eyes however slight | 10 |
| Number of infants not entirely breast fed | 15 |
| Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis | Nil |
| Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia | 4 |
| Number of infant deaths (12 still-born, 14 within 10 days of birth) and their causes | 26 |
In the fourteen years from February, 1921, to the end of
1935 (since the opening of the Borough Maternity Hospital)
10 maternal deaths have occurred in the Hospital in 7,587 births
* 5 of these to re-enter during 1936 for confinement.