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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Cause of Ante-Natal Admissions.
No of Cases
Pre-eclamptic toxaemia 15
Chronic nephritis 1
Essential hypertension 8
Antepartum haemorrhage 5
Hyperemesis 3
Threatened miscarriage 3
Cardiac disease 5
Glycosuria and pyelitis 1
Marked oedema 3
Bronchitis 1
Haemorrhage per rectum 1
Severe backache 4
Haematoma of vulva 1
Epileptic fit 1
Debility 1
Anaemia 1
For observation
(i) Following a fall 2
(ii) ? Mental state 1
Premature rupture of membranes 2
Patients admitted for observation and discharged
because not in labour 50
Total 109
Number of Confinements.
(a) Primigravida 367
(b) Multigravida 272
Total 639
Number of patients delivered by:—
(a) A doctor 107
(b) A midwife 532
Total 639
Miscarriages 3