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 Brentford and Chiswick]
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Other puerperal abnormalities and complications, not associated
with notifiable pyrexia:-
Bacilluria, cystitis or pyelitis :
Present before labour 9
Developed in puerperium 8
17
Mastitis 13
Infected nipples 1
Breast abscess 2
Phlebitis (present before labour in one case) 12
Secondary haemorrhages 7
Sub-involution (severe, probably due to fibroids) 1
Eclampsia (a single fit only) 1
Mental derangement 1
Surgical emphysema 1
Maternal Death. There was one maternal death. The patient
was admitted at the 26th week of pregnancy with lobar pneumonia
and in a debilitated state. A live premature infant, which did not
survive, was born six days after admission and the mother died
two days later in spite of all treatment.
Patients transferred to other Hospitals.
To Queen Charlotte's Isolation Hospital.
Localized uterine infection 1
Post-anaesthetic pneumonia 1
Septic perineum 1
3
To Chiswick and Ealing Isolation Hospital.
Localized uterine sepsis 2
To West Middlesex County Hospital.
Mental derangement 1
Children.
Number of Infants born.
Males 281
Females 237
Total 518