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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Haemorrhage of the newborn (severe) | 2 | |
| Weaned on account of mother's breast condition | 3 | |
| Pyelitis in puerperium and loss of milk | 1 | |
| Mothers transferred to Queen Charlotte's Hospital | 2 | |
| To Queen Charlotte's Isolation Hospital. | ||
| Localised uterine infection | 1 | |
| Non-haemolytic bloodstream infections | 2 | |
| Urinary infection | 1 | 4 |
| To King Edward Memorial Hospital. Subphrenic abscess | 1 | |
| To Chiswick and Ealing Isolation Hospital. | ||
| Infants with skin infection (two cleared up by 14th day) | 3 | |
| Infant with conjunctivitis (notified as ophthalmia neonatorum) | 1 | |
| To West Middlesex County Hospital. | 4 | |
| Delusional insanity (undelivered) | 1 | |
| Infant with pyloric stenosis (for operation) | 1 | |
| — | 2 | |
Consulting Obstetrician.
Dr. J. W. Rait Bell, the Consulting Obstetrician, was called
to the hospital on seven occasions during the year.
Training of Pupils.
During the year twenty pupils completed their course of
training and entered for the examination of the Central Mid wives
Board. All of these pupils were successful.