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Show informationWalthamstow 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
The number of cases notified during the last two years were:—
| Year. | Totals. | St. James Street. | High Street. | Hoe Street. | Wood Street. | Hale End. | Higham Hill. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1933 | 7 | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Year. | Treated | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||||||
| At Home. | In Hospital. | ||||||||||
| 1934 | 1 | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | |||||
| 1933 | 4 | 3 | 7 | — | — | — | |||||
Four cases were admitted to St. Margaret's Hospital (London
County Council) and made a good recovery .
15. MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Particulars are given of eleven maternal deaths for which
Maternal Mortality forms were completed, while the RegistrarGeneral
states that 7 were due to Puerperal Sepsis and 5 to other
Puerperal causes. The Registrar-General has excluded case No. 4
given in the table of particulars which is counted as a suicide. He
has, on the other hand, included the following cases in which no
maternal mortality enquiries were made because in the first case, it
was considered locally that the death would not be counted as being
due to "Other Puerperal Causes" and because in the second case
there was no reference on the death certificate as to any association
with child bearing.
The particulars of death in these two cases are as follows:—
| Date. | Sex. | Age. | Married or Single. | Ward. | Cause of Death. | Classification. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2.34 | F. | 18 | M. | Hoe Street | 1. (a) Toxaemia (b) Empyema | Other puerperal causes. |
| 2. Breast abscess and normal labour 1 month previously. | ||||||
| 10.3.34 | F. | 30 | M. | Higham Hill | Generalised Peritonitis Salpingitis (right) Septic endometritis Coroner's inquest without Post Mortem. | Puerperal Sepsis. |