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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
Wandsworth 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Maternity and Child Welfare.
The full particulars of the work of the Home during 1924 are as follows:-
| Average duration of stay | 15-22 days | ||||
| Number of cases delivered by:— | |||||
| 445 | |||||
| 27 | |||||
| Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by the midwife | 156 | ||||
| 28 | |||||
| Albuminuria | 8 | ||||
| Contracted pelvis | 15 | ||||
| Large child | 1 | ||||
| Hæmorrhage | 2 | ||||
| Cardiac | 2 | ||||
| 70 | |||||
| Adherent placenta | 2 | ||||
| Obstructed labour | 1 | ||||
| Hysteria | 1 | ||||
| Mal-presentation | 6 | ||||
| Prolonged labour | 25 | ||||
| Laceration | 23 | ||||
| Cardiac | 2 | ||||
| (c.) After labour | 36 | ||||
| Rise of temperature | 33 | ||||
| Cardiac | 1 | ||||
| Inflammation of leg | 1 | ||||
| Embolism | 1 | ||||
| 22 | |||||
| Feebleness | 12 | ||||
| Deformities | 2 | ||||
| Rise of temperature | 2 | ||||
| Asphyxia | 1 | ||||
| Watery eyes | 5 | ||||
| Number of cases of puerperal sepsis | 8 | ||||
| Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate | 33 | ||||
| Number of cases of ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | ||||
| Number of cases of "inflammation of the eyes," however slight | 11 | ||||