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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 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. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| 1934 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Year. | Treated | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | |||||
| At Home. | in Hospital | |||||||||
| 1935 | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | — | ||||
| 1934 | 1 | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | ||||
The single notification of 1935 creates a new low record.
The average number of cases notified annually during the
previous nine years to 1936 was 8.5.
15. MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Corrections.— The second maternal death referred to at the
foot of page 102 in the report of 1934 should be excluded. The
death had been classified by the Registrar-General as being due
to Puerperal Sepsis on the grounds that the endometritis had
been associated with recent parturition, which was in fact incorrect.
This exclusion reduces the number of deaths due to Puerperal
Sepsis in 1934 from 7 to 6, and the total to 11.
The net result is to alter the maternal mortality rates for 1934 as follows :—
| Births Registered. | Deaths of Women due to Pregnancy and Child-Bearing. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WALTHAMSTOW. | England and Wales. | ||||||||
| Puerperal Sepsis. | Other Puerperal Causes. | Total. | Rates per 1,000 Births Registered. | Rates per 1,000 Births Registered. | |||||
| Puerperal Sepsis. | Other Puerperal Causes. | Total. | Puerperal Sepsis. | Other Puerperal Causes. | Total. | ||||
| Live 1,715 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 3.49 | 2.91 | 6.40 | 203 | 2.57 | 4.60 |
| Live and Stillbirths 1,775 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 3.37 | 2.81 | 6.18 | 1.95 | 2.46 | 4.41 |