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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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BOOKED CASES.
Ante-natal Cases Admitted for Treatment.
130 patients were admitted during the pregnancy for treatment.
The conditions for which they were admitted are as
follows :—
Toxaemia 61
Pyelitis 3
Hypertension 6
Mitral stenosis 3
General debility and anaemia 4
Tuberculosis 1
Post Maturity 2
Oedema 2
Hydramnios 2
Abnormal presentation for version 18
Phlebitis 3
Acute retention of urine 1
Trial labour 9
Ante-partum haemorrhage 9
Threatened miscarriage 1
Vaginal thrush 1
Dead Foetus 2
Herpes Zoster 1
Haematuria 1
Abnormal Presentations.
Persistent occipito-posterior 20
Twin pregnancy—
(а) Vertices 6
(b).Vertex and breech 5
(c) Breeches 3
Breech—
(a) Flexed Breech (1) Primipara 8
(2) Multipara 5
(b) Extended Breech (1) Primipara 18
(2) Multipara. 2
(c) Breech extraction 4
Face 1
Vertex with prolapsed hand 1
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