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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
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 miscarriage | 6 | Ruptured perineum | 27 |
| A.P. Haemorrhage | 1 | Delayed labour | 9 |
| Albuminuria | 1 | Malpresentation | 8 |
| Foetal death | 1 | Adherent placenta | 3 |
| Phlebitis | 1 | P.P. Hæmorrhage | 3 |
| Contracted pelvis | 1 | 50 | |
| 11 | |||
| Infant. | — | ||
| Eye conditions | 8 | ||
| Puerperium. | Feebleness | 7 | |
| Eclampsia | 2 | Rash | 4 |
| Subinvolution | 1 | Stillbirth | 2 |
| Phlebitis | 1 | Jaundice | 2 |
| — | Other conditions | 25 | |
| 4 | 48 |
Details of medical aid notices issued by midwives employed
at Thorpe Coombe are given in the Maternity Home report.