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Ealing 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Patients transferred to other Hospitals:
To Chiswick and Ealing Isolation Hospital.
With uterine sepsis 2
Retained products 2
Mild parametritis 1
To Queen Charlotte's Isolation Block.
Mild uterine sepsis 1
To West Middlesex County Hospital.
For immediate induction of labour 1
To King Edward Memorial Hospital
Patient with severe Pyelitis 1
Maternal Death.—There was one death. This was a case of
lateral placenta praevia with a large post-mature child. The
patient had a pulmonary embolism before the unassisted delivery
of a stillborn child. She died twenty-four hours later.
Consulting Obstetrician.—Dr. J. W. Rait Bell, the
Consulting Obstetrician, was called to the Hospital on eight
occasions during the period under review.
Training of Pupils.—Up to the 31st October, 1937, 14 Pupils
completed their course of training and entered for the examination
of the Central Midwives Board. All of these pupils were successful.

PERIVALE MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

Mothers.—The 300 cases admitted to the Hospital during the period 1st November, 1937, to 31st March, 1938, from the two districts were as follows:—

MonthEalingBrentford and ChiswickTotal
November431053
December41950
J anuary591170
February51859
March581068
25248300