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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1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 (to July 4) | Total | |
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Number of patients for whom medical assistance was required— | ||||||||||||||||
(a) Antenatal | 22 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | 16 | ? | - | - | - | 10 | 12 | 14 | ? |
(b) In labour | 22 | 249 | 345 | 262 | 298 | 246 | 362 | 59 | 7 | 329 | 251 | 261 | 259 | 507 | 203 | ? |
(c) Puerperium | 52 | 18 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ? | - | - | - | 17 | 1 | - | ? |
(d) For the infant | 10 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 27 | ? | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 34 | 7 | ? |
TOTALS | 106 | 294 | 365 | 275 | 322 | 264 | 377 | 102 | 365 | 339 | 261 | 271 | 299 | 554 | 224 | 4,418 |
Number of infants— | ||||||||||||||||
(a) Not breast fed at all | - | - | - | - | 36 | 31 | 27 | 16 | 28 | 45 | 26 | 24 | 50 | 51 | 32 | 366 |
(b) Partly breast fed | 3 | 45 | 95 | 73 | 115 | 107 | 130 | 62 | 85 | 104 | 102 | 91 | 126 | 199 | 107 | 1,444 |
TOTALS | 3 | 45 | 95 | 73 | 151 | 138 | 157 | 78 | 113 | 149 | 128 | 115 | 176 | 250 | 139 | 1,810 |
Number of— | ||||||||||||||||
(a) Maternal deaths | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 21 |
(b) Infant deaths | 1 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 159 |
(c) Stillbirths | 6 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 32 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 33 | 24 | 38 | 46 | 31 | 14 | 371 |
Number of cases of— | ||||||||||||||||
Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 26 | 26 | 31 | 32 | 21 | 33 | 17 | 26 | 19 | 20 | 8 | 331 |
Number of cases of— | ||||||||||||||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |