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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 1932

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

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Table: During the year help was obtained in 221 cases as follows :— Mother—

During the year help was obtained in 221 cases as follows :— Mother—

Ruptured perineum36
Prolonged labour26
Ante-partum haemorrhage13
Post-partum haemorrhage3
Retained Placenta9
Rise of temperature34
Malpresentations2
Extended breech2
Inflammation of breasts—
Phlebitis—
Albuminuria1
Other causes60
186
Child-
Prematurity and dangerous feebleness10
Unsatisfactory condition of infant4
Deformities2
Discharging eyes8
Still-birth1
Skin eruptions2
Other causes8
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Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Four cases of Puerperal Fever and 23 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified during the year under the Regulations of
1926 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 rate was 1.9 per 1,000 births and
the Puerperal Pyrexia case rate 11.1 per 1,000 births.