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Croydon 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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YEAR.BIRTHS. Live and Still.Puerperal Infection.Puerperal Toxaemias.Haemorrhages.Other Causes.
Eclampsia.Hyperemesis.Ectopic Gestation.Placenta Praevia.Post.partum Haemorrhage.Pulmonary Embolism.Caesarean Section.Shock.Heart Disease. Syncope.Renal Trouble.Other Causes.TOTAL.Maternal Mortality.Infant Mortality.
1931350111323121...............236.667
1932342923..................1......172.049
193332495211......1.........11123.747
1934330453...12.........1......1133.946
1935339171.........1...1............102.945
1936337352......2...3...1.........133.941
Totals (1919)(1936)942846141819577718227

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Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Fourteen cases of Puerperal Fever and 48 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified. This is a rate of 4.2 per 1,000 births (live
and still births) for the former and 14.2 per 1,000 for the latter.
The death-rates were:—Puerperal Fever, 1.5 per 1,000 births.

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

Table II.

The following Table gives fuller details concerning these cases.

Puerperal Fever.Puerperal Pyrexia.
A-
No. of cases notified1448
,, „ attended at home47
(1)By doctor alone31
(2)By doctor and maternity nurse62
(3)By midwife alone54
(4)Confinement unattended--
B- No. of cases attended in an Institution1041
C- ,, ,, attended in a Nursing Home-3
D- ,, ,, treated at Home35
E- ,, ,, treated at Hospital1139
G- ,, ,, treated at Nursing Homes-2
G- ,, ,, treated at Home and Hospital12
H-,, ,, who died32