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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
Ilford 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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It was necessary to call in a doctor in 119 of the latter cases, owing to the following complications:—
| (a) Ante-Natal 36 | Small measurements 16 |
| Pre-eclampsia 14 | |
| Version 4 | |
| Ante-partum haemorrhage 2 | |
| (b) During labour 37 | Adherent placenta 3 |
| Premature labour 1 | |
| Prolonged labour 9 | |
| Persistent occipito-posterior 6 | |
| Extended breech 9 | |
| Brow 1 | |
| Prolapsed cord 2 | |
| Secondary uterine inertia 3 | |
| Foetal distress 2 | |
| Rudimentary vagina 1 | |
| (c) After labour 34 | Ruptured perineum 29 |
| Pyelitis 2 | |
| Synovitis and pre-patellar bursitis 1 | |
| Scarlet Fever 1 | |
| Pyo-salpinx 1 | |
| (d) For infant 12 | Congenital absence of rectum 1 |
| Melena 2 | |
| Secondary umbilical haemorrhage 1 | |
| Dangerous feebleness 6 | |
| Spina bifida 2 |
There were 6 deaths of infants in the Home, from the following
causes:—
Prematurity 4
Congenital atelectasis and undeveloped diaphragm
1
Convulsions and intra-cranial haemorrhage 1
There were 9 stillbirths in the Home from the following
causes:—
Macerated foetus 1
Difficult labour 2
Shock 1
Foetal asphyxia 1
Abnormal dilated bladder 1
Anencephalus 1
Prolapse of cord 1
Ante-partum haemorrhage and abnormal
presentation 1