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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

Ealing 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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In addition to the above, 16 cases of puerperal pyrexia occurred,
each of which made a good recovery. The cases were as follows :—
Pyelitis (without septicaemia) 6
Pyelitis (with septicaemia) 2
Localized uterine infection 4
(one of these developed pelvic peritonitis)
Influenza 3
Cause uncertain (? gastrointestinal) 1

Table: She took the first anaesthetic quite well, but on the second occasion took the anaesthetic badly throughout and collapsed suddenly, no remedies being of any avail.

She took the first anaesthetic quite well, but on the second occasion took the anaesthetic badly throughout and collapsed suddenly, no remedies being of any avail.

Patients discharged to other Hospitals. To Isolation Hospital (Chiswick and Ealing)4
Post partum collapse, followed by abscess of thigh, septicaemia and pyelitis1
Breast abscess1
Sapraemia2
To Queen Charlotte's Isolation Hospital3
Pelvic peritonitis1
Septicaemia (B.coli) and pyelitis1
Sapraemia1
To West Middlesex County Hospital1
Septicaemia and pyelitis1
Children.
Number of Infants born. Males278
Females253
Total531