Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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DEATHS DUE TO PREGNANCY AND CHILD-BEARING AND/OR ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.
Case No. | Date of Death. | Certified Cause of Death and Classification. | Age. | Ward. | Circumstances. | No. of Pregnancy and Duration. | Ante-Natal Care. Doctor. Midwife. | Physical Condition. | Date of Confinement or Abortion. | Doctor called. | Admission to Hospital. | ||
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1 | 8.3.38 | Pulmonary embolism consequent upon pelvic and femoral thrombophlebitis after childbirth | 29 | Hi. | Comfortable | 2 | weeks. 40 | — | Yes | Good | 11.2.38 | 15.2.38 | — |
2 | 18.7.38 | 1. Chronic heart failure 2. Chronic rheumatic endocarditis with aortic stenosis. 3. Pregnancy. 4. In second stage of labour. | 23 | W. | Comfortable | 1 | 40 | Yes | - | Pre-existing disease | 18.7.38 | Attending Hospital | 11.7.38 |
3 | 15.8.38 | Septicaemia from septic endometritis following spontaneous abortion. | 21 | H.E. | Comfortable | 1 | 16/20 | - | - | Good | 8.8.38 | 8.8.38 Attending Hospital | 9.8.38 |
4 | 8.9.38 | 1. Paralytic Ileus. 2. Eclampsia due to Pregnancy toxaemia | 29 | H.H. | Comfortable | 1 | 16 | - | Yes | Pre-existing disease (eclampsia) | 7.9.38 | 1.9.38 | |
5 | 28.9.38 | Cerebral Embolus | 43 | H.H. | Comfortable | 7 | 40 | — | — | Good | 13.6.38 | 4.7.38 | 4.7.38 |
6 | 16.10.38 | General peritonitis due to instrumental perforation of uterus. Septic incomplete abortion. Self-induced. | 21 | H.E. | Poor | 1 | 12/16 | - | - | Good | 12.10.38 | 16.10.38 | - |
7 | 21.10.38 | Ante-partum haemorrhage due to premature separation of the placenta due to pregnancy toxaemia. | 38 | H.H. | Poor | 10 | 36 | Yes | - | Pre-existing disease (Toxaemia and Haemorrhage) | Attend - ing Hospital | 19.10.38 |
Remarks:—Registrar-General's classification—Cases 1 and 7, heading 30 (other puerperal causes); Case 3, heading 29 (Puerperal sepsis).