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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Infant Deaths. Total, 11.
Prematurity 8
Congenital heart 1
(antepartum haemorrhage in mother).
Intracranial injury and atalectasis 1
(following prolonged but normal labour).
Atalectasis 1
Abnormalities in Infants born alive and discharged.
Congenital heart 2
Convulsions 1
Multiple deformities, Klippel-Feil disease 1
Melaena neonatorum 1
Icterus neonatorum (severe) 2
Tracheal obstruction 1
Talipes 5
Tongue-tie 2
Cephal-haematoma 5
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. No cases occurred.
Infants transferred to other Hospitals.
To Vincent Square Infants' Hospital.
Multiple deformities, Klippel-Feil disease 1
Dr. J. W. Rait Bell, the consulting obstetrician, was called
in on 14 occasions during the year.