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Analysis of Notified Cases.
Total cases = 15.
Total West Ham residents = 14.
Number of cases born at home = 11.
Number of cases born in hospital = 4.
Number of cases treated at home = 7.
(by private doctor or from out patient department of a
hospital)
Number of cases treated in the hospital when born = 2.
Number of cases transferred to hospital for treatment :
(a) from Maternity Hospital 2
(b) from home 4
Total 6
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eight cases of Puerperal Fever and 47 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified to the Medical Officer of Health; this represents
1.38 per 1,000 notified births in regard to Puerperal Fever, and
8.1 cases of Pyrexia per 1,000 births.
Arrangements are in force whereby the mother and baby can
be admitted immediately to hospital if such is considered necessary.
Three Consultant Obstetric Surgeons have been appointed
by the Council so that the patient may have the benefit of consultant
services in her own home.
Home nursing of puerperal cases is carried out by the nurses
from the several District Nursing Association in the Borough.
Where Nursed Result
Home Hospital Recovered Died
Puerperal Fever 17 4 4
Puerperal Pyrexia 8 39 47 0
Infantile Mortality.
The infantile mortality rate for 1934 is 65.5 per 1,000 births,
being an increase of .6 per 1,000 compared with 1933.
For the 118 Great Towns the rate is 63 per 1,000.
The total number of deaths under one year was 284, of which
172 were males and 112 were females; of this total number 11
were illegitimate.
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