Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births.
1,924 notifications of live births were received during the year
(male 963, females 961).
442 notifications (including still births) were received from
medical practitioners and parents, and 1,521 from midwives.
In addition, information was received of 183 births outside
this area.
Stillbirths.
39 stillbirths were notified (23 male, 16 female), the
corresponding figures for registration being 33 and 30. The rate
per 1,000 of total population registered 0.69, the same figure as for
England and Wales.
The causes of the stillbirths were:—
(a) Maternal Causes—13.
Albuminuria, 5 ; anaemia and debility, 2 ; hypecmesis, 1 ;
antepartum haemorrhage, 4 ; fright 1.
(b) Prematurity—5.
Falls, 4 ; Influenza, 1.
(c) Death of fœus during labour—24.
Abnormal presentation, 3 ; complications of
delivery, 3 ; disproportion of head to pelvis, 5 ; cord
round ncck, 1 ; other difficulties in labour, usually
necessitating application of forceps, 8; unknown
causes, 4.