Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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During the year help was obtained in 223 cases as follows :—
Mother—
Ruptured perineum | 55 |
Prolonged labour | 46 |
Ante-partum haemorrhage | 2 |
Post-partum haemorrhage | 4 |
Retained Placenta | 7 |
Rise of temperature | 13 |
Malpresentations | 3 |
Extended breech | 3 |
Inflammation of breasts | 1 |
Phlebitis | 4 |
Albuminuria | 2 |
Other causes | 33 |
173 | |
Child- | |
Prematurity and dangerous feebleness | 16 |
Unsatisfactory condition of infant | 11 |
Deformities | 1 |
Discharging eyes | 12 |
Still-birth | 1 |
Skin eruptions | 4 |
Other causes | 5 |
50 |
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.