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 Ealing]
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These patients were suffering from:—
Toxaemia | 7 |
Threatened abortion | 2 |
Mitral stenosis | 2 |
Pyelitis | 1 |
Epilepsy | 1 |
Epistaxis | 1 |
Hydramnios | 1 |
Threatened disproportion | 2 |
Breech presentation (Version under anaesthesia performed) | 1 |
Found not to be in labour (One patient with chronic pyelitis) | 2 |
Mothers.—Apart from the emergency and ante-natal cases already alluded to, the following were the abnormalities and complications encountered:—
Ante- Natal Period. | |
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Toxaemia (requiring surgical induction 6) | 23 |
Toxaemic vomiting | 1 |
Eclampsia (requiring surgical induction) | 2 |
Pyelitis | 3 |
Heart disease | 3 |
Disproportion (requiring surgical induction) | 5 |
Disproportion (requiring trial labour) | 1 |
Disproportion (normal labour) | 1 |
Breech presentation (requiring surgical induction) | 2 |
Breech presentation (requiring version) | 1 |
Postmaturity (requiring medical induction) | 1 |
Intrauterine death of foetus (requiring medical induction) | 1 |
Hydramnios | 1 |
Ante-partum haemorrhage (? cause) | 1 |
Threatened abortion | 2 |
Hydatidiform mole | 1 |
Epilepsy | 1 |
Epistaxis | 1 |