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Croydon 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Puerperal Toxaemias.Haemorrhages.Other Causes.
YEAR.BIRTHS Live and Still.Puerperal Infection.Eclampsia.Hyperemesis.Ectopic Gestation.Piacenta Praevia.Post-partum Haemorrhage.Pulmonary Embolism.Caesarean Section.Shock.Heart Disease. Syncope.Renal Trouble.|Other Causes.TOTAL.Maternal Mortality,Infant Mortality.
1931350111323121...............236.657
1932342923...........................172.049
193332495211......1.........11123.747
1934330453...12.........1......1133.946
1935339171.........1...1............102.945
Totals (1919- 1935)892646121816567718214

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Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eighteen cases of Puerperal Fever and 47 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified. This is a rate of 5.3 per 1,000 births (live
and still births) for the former and 13.9 per 1,000 for the latter.
The death-rates were:—Puerperal Fever, 2.1 per 1,000 births.
There were no deaths attributed to Puerperal Pyrexia.

Table: TableII.The following Table gives fuller details concerning these cases.

TableII.

The following Table gives fuller details concerning these cases.

Puerperal Fever.Puerperal Pyrexia.
a—No. of cases notified1847
„ ,, attended at home1212
(1) By doctor alone11
(2) By doctor and maternity nurse77
(3) By midwife alone24
(4) Confinement unattended2-
B—
No. of cases attended in an Institution432
C—
„ „ attended in a Nursing Home23
d—5
„ „ treated at Home1
e—36
„ „ treated at Hospital13
F—1
„ „treated at Nursing Homes—
G—
„ „ treated at Home and Hospital45
H—„ „who died33