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 Barking]
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ANNUAL STATISTICS RELATING TO MATERNITY CASES ADMITTED TO UPNEY HOSPITAL AND ATTENDED ON THE DISTRICT.
Hospital. | District. | |
---|---|---|
Total number of cases admitted | 114 | — |
Average duration of stay | 14 days | — |
Number of cases delivered— | ||
(a) Midwives | 109 | 152 |
(b) Doctors | 1 | 9 |
Number of cases in which medical attention was sought by the midwife with reasons for requiring assistance— | ||
(a) Ante-natal | 1 | 1 |
(b) During labour | 2 | 6 |
(c) After labour | 1 | 4 |
(d) For infant | 6 | 5 |
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis with result of treatment in each case | — | — |
Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate | 2 | 2 |
Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, with result of treatment in each case | — | 1 |
Number of cases of " inflammation of the eyes " however slight | 3 | – |
Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in the institution, with reasons why they were not breast-fed | 12 | – |
(Weakness of mother, depressed nipples) | ||
Number of maternal deaths with causes | — | – |
Number of foetal deaths (still-born or within ten days of
birth) and their causes, and the results of the post-mortem
examination, if obtainable: 2 macerated; 1 anencephalus; 2 premature,
and 1 heart.