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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
Croydon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| 4. Conditions | ||||
| chiefly Post- | ||||
| Natal excluding | ||||
| re-admissions from | ||||
| Post-Hatal Clinic. | ||||
| Retroversion | 48 | 6 | 40 | 94 |
| Delayed involution | 8 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| Breast abscess | 1 | - | 3 | 4 |
| Notified pyrexia or fever | 11 | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| In addition 20 cases of Puerperal Fever per so were admissed to the Puerperal Infection Unit of the Borough Hospital. | ||||
Blood Transfusion. (11 obstetrical and 14 gynaecological cases)
The citrate method was employed and all except one donor were supplied
by the blood transfusion service of the British Red Cross Society.
One Borough Hospital Obstetrical case and one gynaecological case
died.
Infants
| Mayday Hospital Booked. | Mayday Hospital Emergency | St. Mary's Maternity . Hospital Booked. | Total | Per cent. | |
| No. of infants in Hospital on 1st January 1939. | 21 | - | 20 | 49 | |
| Total No. of live births, still births and infants admitted with mother (B.B.A.) | 829 | 69 | 457 | 1355 | |
| No. of infants in Hospital on 31st December 1939 | 39 | _ | 22 | 61 | |
| Living-alive on discharge from Hospital | 774 | 50 | 435 | 1259 | 93.9 |
| Stillborn | 35 | ' 11 | 13 | 59 | 4.4 |
| Died (born alive, but died in Hospital). | 20 | 8 | 9 | 37 | 2.7 |