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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
Bromley 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Notices summoning Medical Aid | 97 | |
| (a) Mothers | 84 | |
| (b) Infants | 13 | |
| Notices of Artificial Feeding | 3 | |
| ,, ,, Stillbirths | 2 | |
| ,, ,, Deaths | 3 | |
| ,, ,, Laying out a Dead Body | 3 | |
| ,, ,, Source of Infection | 4 | |
| Ruptured perineum | 43 | |
| Delayed labour | 9 | |
| Breast condition | 1 | |
| Varicose veins and leg swellings | 1 | |
| Inertia | 3 | |
| Placenta, adherent | 4 | |
| Abnormal presentation | 6 | |
| Haemorrhage | 6 | |
| Ante-natal examination | 4 | |
| Rise of temperature (puerperal pyrexia) | 2 | |
| Other causes | 5 | |
| Infants—Feeble, prematurity, etc. | 7 | |
| Malformations | 1 | |
| Cyanosis | 1 | |
| Eye discharge | 4 | |
| 97 | ||
Payment of Doctors called by Midwives, Section 14,
Midwives Act, 1918.
No. of applications for fees 55
No. of cases where payment of fee lapsed on
account of failure to claim within the
prescribed period of two months 32
No. of cases where patient was known to have paid
the doctor's fee direct 10
Total amount of claims paid £68
No. of necessitous cases in which repayment of
claim was waived, or partial repayment of
claim was accepted by the Committee 9