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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

East Ham 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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Table: During the year help was obtained in 223 cases as follows :—Mother—

During the year help was obtained in 223 cases as follows :—

Mother—

Ruptured perineum55
Prolonged labour46
Ante-partum haemorrhage2
Post-partum haemorrhage4
Retained Placenta7
Rise of temperature13
Malpresentations3
Extended breech3
Inflammation of breasts1
Phlebitis4
Albuminuria2
Other causes33
173
Child-
Prematurity and dangerous feebleness16
Unsatisfactory condition of infant11
Deformities1
Discharging eyes12
Still-birth1
Skin eruptions4
Other causes5
50

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Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Four cases of Puerperal Fever and 6 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified during the year under the Regulations of
192C and 1928. The Regulations of 1st October, 1926, extended
notification to Puerperal Pyrexia, which means " any febrile condition
(other than a condition which required to be notified as
Puerperal Fever) occurring in a woman within 21 days after
child-birth, or miscarriage, in which a temperature of 100.4 deg.
Fahrenheit or more has been sustained during a period of 24 hours,
or has recurred during that period."
The Puerperal Fever case rale was 2 per 1,000 births and the
Puerperal Pyrexia case rate 3 per 1,000 births.