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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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Notifiable Pyrexia 26
Acute Mastitis 1
Flushed Breast . 1
Urinary Infection 10
Uterine Infection—
(a) Retained products 3
(b) Non-streptococcal infection 1
(c) Haemolytic streptococcal infection Group C 2
Influenza 7
Post operative distension 1
Non-notifiable Pyrexia during Puerperium 31
General debility 5
Urinary infection 11
Cracked nipples and mastitis 4
Breast abscess 2
Uterine infection 2
Phlebitis 1
Retained products 6
Patients Transferred to other Hospitals.
To Clayponds Isolation Hospital—
(a) for Haemolytic Streptococcal infection 2
(b) Dental abscess 1
Maternal Deaths 0
INFANTS.
Number of infants born 1183
Males (alive) 612
Females (alive) 571
Stillborn 20
Abortion 1
Neo-natal deaths 11
Stillbirths.
Fresh.
(a) Full term 6
(b) Premature 2
(c) Anencephalic 1
Macerated
53