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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| Episiotomy | 68 |
| External Version | 12 |
| Internal Version | 1 |
| Rupture of membranes for Toxaemia | 26 |
| Hypertension | 3 |
| Accidental Haemorrhage | 1 |
| Post Maturity | 4 |
| Forceps Delivery. | |
| (a) Foetal distress | 5 |
| (b) Maternal distress | 5 |
| (c) Uterine enertia | 21 |
| (d) Minor pelvic disproportion | 7 |
| 1 | |
| Caesarean Section. | |
| (1) Primiperous Breech with Bilateral thrombosis | 1 |
| (b) Lower Segment: | |
| (1) Disproportion | 3 |
| (2) Rhesus factor | 1 |
| Ruptured Uterus. | |
| (a) Spontaneous | 1 |
| (b) Rupture of old myomectomy scar | 1 |
| High Head—primipara without disproportion | |
| Unsuccessful Trial Labour—for disproportion | 1 |
| Eclampsia | 4 |
| Haemorrhages. | |
| Central Placenta Praevia | 0 |
| Lateral Placenta Praevia | 2 |
| Accidental | 1 |
| Moderate | 54 |
| Severe | 4 |
| Manual removal of placenta | 10 |
| Secondary post partum haemorrhage | 2 |
| Notifiable Pyrexia | 26 |
| Acute Mastitis | 1 |
| Flushed Breast | 1 |
| Urinary Infection | 10 |
| Uterine Infection: | |
| 3 | |
| (b) Non-streptococcal infection | 1 |
| (c) Haemolytic streptococcal infection, Group C | 2 |
| Influenza | 7 |
| Post operative distension | 1 |