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 West Ham]
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History of previous pregnancies and labours showed that out of 123 Multiparae in the scries of 178 there were:—
(a) Normal Confinements | 58 |
(b) Previous Stillbirths | 27 |
(c) Miscarriages | 22 |
(d) Difficult Confinements | 3 |
(e) Eclampsia | 2 |
(f) Adherent Placenta | 1 |
(g) Premature Confinement | 2 |
(h) Particulars indefinite | 8 |
Total | 123 |
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Attributed Cause of Stillbirth. | Cases |
---|---|
Not Known | 33 |
Albuminuria | 9 |
Eclampsia | 1 |
Influenza | 3 |
Debility | 6 |
Pneumonia | 2 |
Acute Bronchitis | 1 |
Pleurisy | 3 |
Cardiac Disease | 2 |
Diabetes | 1 |
Exophthalmic Goitre | 1 |
Mental Disease | 2 |
Accident or Shock | 20 |
Hvdramnios | 3 |
Twins | 2 |
Malformed Foetus | 9 |
Induction of Labour by Quinine | 1 |
Antepartum Haemorrhage | 15 |
Prolonged Labour | 13 |
Difficult Forceps | 13 |
Craniotomy | 3 |
Abnormal Presentation | 6 |
Placenta Praevia | 12 |
Breech—Delay in Delivery of Head | 12 |
Cord round Neck | 5 |
Total | 178 |