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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 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: Dental Scheme for Nursing and Expectant Mothers.Mr. J. H. Glen, School Dental Surgeon, has submitted the following figures for 1943 :—

Dental Scheme for Nursing and Expectant Mothers.Mr. J. H. Glen, School Dental Surgeon, has submitted the following figures for 1943 :—

Number of sessions held65
Number of attendances of mothers409
Number of patients discharged—treatment complete105
Details of Treatment :
Attendances for gas extractions93
Attendances for local extractions23
Extractions600
Fillings92
Dentures fitted54

Table: Administration of Midwives' Acts, 1902-1936.

Administration of Midwives' Acts, 1902-1936.

Number of midwives practising in the area at the end of 194320
Number of confinements attended :
(a) As midwives548
(b) As maternity nurses429
977

Table: Number of cases in which medical aid was summonea during the year under Section 14 (1) Midwives' Act, 1918, by a midwife :—

Number of cases in which medical aid was summonea during the year under Section 14 (1) Midwives' Act, 1918, by a midwife :—

(a) For domiciliary cases 43
(b) For cases in institutions 346

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Note. Cases in the Maternity Hospital are medically supervised,
and are not included in the above figures.
Maternity Hospital Provision.
242 maternity patients were admitted through the Municipal
Midwifery Service to the County Hospital during 1942. The
prevailing scarcity of home accommodation and home attention
are reasons for this large number of admissions.
The Bromley and Chislehurst Maternity Hospital admitted
408 private cases for confinement, of whom 293 were delivered
by midwives and 115 by doctors. Four cases of puerperal pyrexia
were notified from the Hospital, one case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
and six stillbirths.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Five cases were notified during the year. There was no
mortality and no spread of infection.