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Barking 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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In addition to the cases of puerperal sepsis, 7 cases of puerperal
pyrexia were notified, the confinements in 3 cases being attended by
midwives. All the patients recovered.
No definite cause of infection was found in any of the cases,
although it was noted by the health visitors in the routine investigation,
that in three out of four patients foci of infection were
present before labour
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Three maternal deaths occurred during 1927, the deaths being
certified as follows:—
(a) Post mortem haemorrhage—transverse presentation
1
(b) Septicaemia due to miscarriage 1
(c) Septicaemia—incomplete abortion 1
NEO-NATAL MORTALITY.
The number of deaths of infants under four weeks of age was
18, giving a rate of 25.3 per thousand, compared with 18.3 for the
previous year in Barking.
It is hoped that, with the extension of nate-natal care, this low rate will be maintained.
| Deaths Under Four Weeks. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under seven days. | Under fourteen days. | Undertwenty-one days. | Under twenty light days. | Total. | |
| Atelectasis | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Premature Birth | - | - | |||
| Debility | - | - | |||
| Marasmus | - | - | - | ||
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | 1 | |