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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 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Episiotomy68
External Version12
Internal Version1
Rupture of membranes for Toxaemia26
Hypertension3
Accidental Haemorrhage1
Post Maturity4
Forceps Delivery.
(a) Foetal distress5
(b) Maternal distress5
(c) Uterine enertia21
(d) Minor pelvic disproportion7
(e) Prolapsed cord1
Caesarean Section.
(a) Upper Segment:
(1) Primiperous Breech with Bilateral thrombosis1
(b) Lower Segment:
(1) Disproportion3
(2) Rhesus factor1
Ruptured Uterus.
(a) Spontaneous1
(b) Rupture of old myomectomy scar1
High Head—primipara without disproportion
Unsuccessful Trial Labour—for disproportion1
Eclampsia4
Haemorrhages.
Ante-Partum.
Central Placenta Praevia0
Lateral Placenta Praevia2
Accidental1
Post-Partum.
Moderate54
Severe4
Manual removal of placenta10
Secondary post partum haemorrhage2
Notifiable Pyrexia26
Acute Mastitis1
Flushed Breast1
Urinary Infection10
Uterine Infection:
(a) Retained products3
(b) Non-streptococcal infection1
(c) Haemolytic streptococcal infection, Group C2
Influenza7
Post operative distension1