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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Municipal midwives attended:—
1. Home confinements booked 1,353
2. Planned early discharges booked 467
3. Patients delivered at home 996
Midwifery cases Nil
Maternity cases 996
4. Primagravida delivered at home 42
Multigravida delivered at home 954
5. Live births At home 993
6. Still births At home 3
(1) Impacted shoulders (2) I.U.D. Placental Insufficiency
(3) Macerated
7. Neonatal deaths at home
(1) Cardiac (2) Meningitis 2
8. Premature births at home 21
36 weeks by dates 6lbs. 6oz.
37½ weeks 5lbs. 4oz. admitted
37 weeks 5lbs. 4oz.
35 weeks 5lbs. Breech admitted
36 weeks 4lbs. admitted
36 weeks 5lbs. 12oz. Severe Asphyxia. Admitted later
Cold syndrome
38 weeks 5lbs. 4oz.
Term 5lbs. 8oz.
36 weeks 4lbs. admitted
Term 5lbs. 4oz.
37 weeks 4lbs. admitted
37 weeks 4lbs. Macerated S.B. breech
36 weeks 5lbs. 4oz. admitted
36 weeks by dates 6lbs. 13oz.
Term 5lbs.
37 weeks 3lbs. 2oz. S.B. I.U.D.
Term 5lbs.
Term 5lbs.
Term 5lbs. 8oz.
Term 5lbs. 8oz.
Not known 2lbs. admitted (NND) on arrival
9. Inhalational Analgesia given "Entonox" 684
"Trilene" 105
10. Patients given Pethidine or Pethilorfan 563