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 Brent]
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CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS
Table 10
Summary of Notifications
(i) Number of notifications received during year | 90 |
(ii) Number of live births included in (i) above | 80 |
(iii) Number of stillbirths included in (i) above | 10 |
(iv) Total number of malformations notified as apparent at birth | 74 |
(v) Number of children with multiple abnormalities | 9 |
Table 11
Analysis of Malformations Notified
Code No. | Classification | Number of cases | Code No. | Classification | Number of cases |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | Central Nervous System | 6 | Limbs | ||
.1 | Anencephalus | 6 | .3 | Polydactyly | 8 |
.4 | Hydrocephalus | 5 | .4 | Syndactyly | 6 |
.8 | Spina bifida | 6 | .5 | Dislocation of Hip | 3 |
.9 | Other defects of spinal cord | 1 | .6 | Talipes | 18 |
.7 | Defects of right arm | 1 | |||
1 | Eye, ear | .8 | Other defects of lower arm | 1 | |
.9 | Other defects of ear | 1 | .1 | Defects of lower limbs NOS | 3 |
2 | Alimentary system | ||||
.1 | Cleft lip | 4 | |||
.2 | Cleft palate | 3 | 7 | Other skeletal | |
.4 | Oesophageal atresia | 2 | .1 | Defects of face | 1 |
.3 | Defects of spine | 2 | |||
3 | Heart and Great Vessels | .0 | Other defects of skeletal NOS | 2 | |
.9 | Cardiac lesion | 1 | |||
5 | Uro-genital system | 8 | Other systems | ||
.6 | Hypospadias | 6 | .9 | Exomphalos | 3 |
.7 | Other defects | 1 | |||
Defects of uro-genital system | |||||
.0 | NOS | 4 | 9 | Other malformations | |
.7 | Other chromosomal syndromes | 1 |
Table 12
MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Deliveries attended:— | |
Doctor not booked, doctor present | 13 |
Doctor not booked, doctor not present | 42 |
Doctor booked, doctor present | 209 |
Doctor booked, doctor not present | 319 |
Number of home booked cases transferred to hospital before confinement | 122 |
Cases in which analgesia was administered:— | |
Gas and air | 16 |
Trilene | 372 |
Pethilorfan | 271 |
Number of times Emergency Transfusion Service used | 16 |
Visits paid:— | |
Ante-natal | 6,005 |
During labour | 1,078 |
Nursing domiciliary confinements | 8,860 |
Nursing institutional discharges | 1,788 |
Clinic Sessions Attended:— | |
Ante-natal | 603 |
General practitioners' clinics | 20 |
Relaxation | 37 |
Mothercraft | 33 |
Number of cases in which medical aid was called by midwife | 121 |