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Islington 1931

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

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[1931

Table:

1931. Month.Cause of Death.Ages at Death.Totals.
15 to 2525 to 3035 to 4545 and upwd.Total.From Puerperal Sepsis.From other Diseases of Childbirth.
Oct.Post partum eclampsia, pregnancy, nephritis1......1..1
,,Pulmonary embolism following Thrombosis of uterine veins after labour. Puerperal sepsis1......11..
Nov.General Peritonitis—Uterine sepsis — childbirth1......11..
,,Hyperemesis Gravidarum..1....I..1
,,Toxaemia Bilateral Streptococcal Pleura Pneumonia — Puerperal Fever—Albuminuria of Pregnancy..1....11..
Dec.Eclampsia—Placenta Prævia....1..1..1
,,Lobar Pneumonia, Premature labour..11....1..11
Week Jan. 2nd. 1932Pyæmic abscesses abortion (three months pregnancy) becoming septic P.M. Natural..g1....1..g1
,,Influenzal Broncho Pneumonia— Premature birth (seven months) N B.—(i) Also one case of abortion from Registrar General—Transfer)....j..1..h1
4th Qr.342.. 936

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(a) Classified as Pneumonia
(b) ,, „ Nephritis
(c) „ „ Miscarriage
(d ,, ,, Abortion
(e) Classified as Heart Failure
(f) ,, ,, Lobar Pneumonia
(g) ,, ,, Abortion
(h) „ ,, Influenzal Pneumonia
1st Quarter 4 = 3.0
2nd Quarter 9 = 6.4
3rd Quarter 6 = 4.6
4th Quarter 9 = 7.2
Year 28= 5.3
Rate per 1,000
registered live
births.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Of the 45 cases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health
during 1931, 22 were notified by Medical Practitioners. The proportion of total
cases to births was 8.5 per thousand. The notifications were 15 above the average
(30) of the preceding ten years and showed an increase of 3.9 in the proportion of
attacks to 1,000 births.

Table: Cases of Puerperal Fever notified and inquired into during the year 1931.

Cases of Puerperal Fever notified and inquired into during the year 1931.

Tufnell.Upper Holloway.Tollington.Lower Holloway.Highbury.Barnsbury.South- East.The Borough
Cases notified3328891246
Private Practitioners' Cases211364522
Hospital Cases121526723
Cases inquired into3328891245
Cases treated in Hospital3328591141
Cases treated at Home————3—14