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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
Midwives Acts, 1902 to 1936.
Eighty-three midwives notified the Local Supervising
Authority of their intention to practice within the Borough
during 1946. Five ceased practising in the Borough; so that
seventy-eight remained on the Register at the end of the year
including six independent domiciliary.
All these were trained and held the certificate of the Central Midwives
Board.
The following table gives details of the reasons for sending for medical aid:
| For Complications during Pregnancy. | |||
| Abortion | 19 | Other causes | 29 |
| Albuminuria | 2 | ||
| 50 | |||
| For Complications during Labour. | |||
| Breech | 3 | Malpresentation | 3 |
| Persist. Occipito Posterior | 6 | Twins | 1 |
| Precipitate Labour | 3 | Foetal Distress | 3 |
| Premature Labour | 2 | Undiagnosed | 4 |
| 25 | |||
| Uterine Inertia | 13 | Prolonged | 20 |
| Delayed | 32 | ||
| 65 | |||
| Ante-partum | 8 | Post-Partum | 6 |
| 14 | |||
| Adherent and Retained Placenta | 2 | Torn Perineum . | 205 |
| Illness of Mqther | 1 | ||
| 208 | |||
| For Complications during Puerperium. | |||
| Pyrexia | 29 | Pain in Breasts | 7 |
| Pain in Legs | 9 | Other causes | 24 |
| 69 | |||
| For Complications in regard to the Baby. | |||
| Inflammation of Eyes | 47 | Still Birth | 2 |
| Feebleness ... | 4 | Other causes | 47 |
| Premature Birth | 4 | ||
| 104 | |||
| 535 | |||