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Barking 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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(1) Number of cases admitted 206
(37 of which Ante-natal)
(2) Average duration of stay 12.3 days
(3) Number of cases delivered by:—
(a) Midwives 167
(b) Doctors 2
(4) Number of cases in which medical assistance was
sought by the midwife with reason for requiring
assistance:—
(a) Ante-natal 2 1 Cardiac
1 Miscarriage
1 A.P.H.
(b) During Labour 3 Adherent Placenta
1 High Temperature
(c) After Labour 8 Ruptured Perineums
(d) For Infant 1 Prematurity
(5) Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis
with result of treatment in each case 1
(recovered)
(6) Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia
with result of treatment in each case Nil
(7) Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum Nil
(8) Number of cases notified as opthalmia
torum with result of treatment in each case Nil
(9) Number of cases of " inflammation of the eyes,"
however slight 1
(10) Number of infants not entirely breast fed while
in the Institution, with reasons why they were
not breast fed 4
(a) Weakness of mother 2
(b) Prematurity 2
(11) Number of maternal deaths Nil
(12) Number of foetal deaths (a) stillborn, and (b)
within 10 days of birth and their causes—and
the results of the post mortem examination
if obtainable:—
(a) Stillborn 5
(b) Within 10 days of birth