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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

Barking 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: Special visits of investigation in all still-births were paid, and the following details elicited as far as accurately could be established:—

Special visits of investigation in all still-births were paid, and the following details elicited as far as accurately could be established:—

(1) Duration of pregnancy:—
(a) Less than seven months1
(b) More than seven months29
(2) Presentation:—
(a) Vertex22
(b) Breach3
(c) Footling1
(d) Not elicited4
(3) Supposed cause of still-birth:—
(a) Abnormal presentation1
(b) Overwork2
(c) Accident, etc.7
(d) Not known14
(e) Ill health, etc.4
(f) Malformation2
(4) Occupation of mother:—
(a) Household duties22
(b) Factory hand4
(c) Shop assistant2
(d) Flower seller1
(e) Machinist1

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Of the mothers who had still-born babies 9 had worked up
to the time of confinement.
Of the total number of mothers who had still-births 10, or
35.7 per cent, had attended the Ante-natal Clinic once or oftener.
As already pointed out disease of the mother probably
accounts for some 50 per cent, of still-births throughout the
country.