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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
Southwark 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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of the Abortion Act, 1967, which is referred to elsewhere in this Report, leads to a
reduction in the number of maternal deaths from this cause.
There were five deaths assigned to maternal causes or associated therewith
investigated on behalf of the Ministry of Health during 1967. Three deaths
followed abortions and the cause of death in the other cases was attributed to
primary cardio myopathy and haemorrhage due to ruptured octopic myopathy (neither
officially classified as maternal mortality).
TOTAL NUMBER OF BIRTHS—LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
| Hospital confinements | 4,539 |
| Domiciliary confinements | 735 |
| 5,274 | |
| Hospital confinements | 78 |
| Domiciliary confinements | 6 |
| 84 | |
| Deaths of infants in first week of life | 59 |
| Deaths of infants one week to one month | 70 |
| Deaths of infants one month to one year | 104 |
| Perinatal mortality per 1,000 total live and stillbirths | 28 |
| Neonatal mortality per 1,000 live births | 14.2 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 20 |
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Administration of Analgesia 83.64%
Cases with booked G.P. Obstetrician 99.0%
No. of Midwives at end of year
Full time 13
General Lying-in District 4
Doctor not booked
Doctor present at delivery —
Doctor not present at delivery 7
Doctor booked
Doctor present at delivery 241
Doctor not present at delivery 493
No. of hospital deliveries attended by midwives on
discharge before 10th day 733
4.7% of domiciliary live births were premature
18