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Shoreditch 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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The particulars of these deaths are entered in the following table:—

Table: MATERNAL MORTALITY, 1933.

MATERNAL MORTALITY, 1933.

AGES.Married.Single.Widowed.WARDS.
15 to 20 yrs.20 to 25 yrs.25 to 30 yrs.30 to 35 yrs.35 to 40 yrs.40 to 45 yrs.45 yrs.Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.
Post abortive Sepsis......11.........2...............1......1...
Abortion not returned as septic......................................................
Hæmorrhage following abortion......................................................
Without record of hæmorrhage......................................................
Ectopic gestation......................................................
Other accidents of pregnancy......................................................
Puerperal hæmorrhage.........1.........1..................1.........
Placenta prœvia.........1.........l..................1.........
Other puerperal hæmorrhage......................................................
Puerperal sepsis.........2.........2............2...............
Puerperal septicæmia and pyæmia.........2.........2............2...............
Puerperal tetanus......................................................
Puerperal albuminuria and convulsions......................................................
Puerperal convulsions......................................................
Other conditions......................................................
Other toxæmias of pregnancy...1...............1..................1.........
Puerperal phlegmasia alba dolens, embolism and sudden death......................................................
Puerperal phlegmasia alba dolens not returned as septic......................................................
Puerperal embolism and sudden death............………...…………………………
Other accidents of childbirth………………………………………………
Other or unspecified conditions of the puerperal state………………………………………………
Puerperal insanity………………………………………………
Puerperal diseases of the breast………………………………………………
Childbirth unqualified………………………………………………
Associated with pregnancy and child-bearing, but not classed thereto………1………1………1………………
Ruptured ectopic gestation………1………1………1………………