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Walthamstow 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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The following table shows the work clone by the midwives,
including those employed at Thorpe Coombe Maternity Home,
during 1935 :—-
No. of confinements attended as a midwife 1,071
„ „ „ „ „ maternity nurse 197
,, „ Medical Aid Notices sent 419
„ „ Notifications of Deaths 5
,, „ Twin Births notified 4
„ „ Stillbirths notified 9
„ „ Notifications of liability to be a source of infection 7
„ ,, „ ,, laying out a dead body 1
„ „ „ „ artificial feeding 1
„ „ „ „ disinfection 7
The table includes the following numbers with regard to
-work done at Thorpe Coombe:—
Midwifery cases, 564 in Home and 35 on District.
Maternity cases, 82 in Home and 9 on District.
Medical Aid Notices, 329.
The percentages of medical aid summonses were :—
Total, 39.1. Maternity Home, 52.1. Domiciliary Midwives, 19.5.

The conditions for which Medical Aid was summoned by Midwives in domiciliary practice have been summarised and were as follows :—

Ante-Natal.Labour.
Threatened miscarriage6Ruptured perineum27
A.P. Haemorrhage1Delayed labour9
Albuminuria1Malpresentation8
Foetal death1Adherent placenta3
Phlebitis1P.P. Hæmorrhage3
Contracted pelvis150
11
Infant.
Eye conditions8
Puerperium.Feebleness7
Eclampsia2Rash4
Subinvolution1Stillbirth2
Phlebitis1Jaundice2
Other conditions25
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Details of medical aid notices issued by midwives employed
at Thorpe Coombe are given in the Maternity Home report.