[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

  • Wakefield (England). City Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of ruptured perineums which required suture . . 13. {d) For infant . . • • f 1 Malaena Neonatorum. 4. ^ 1 Ophthalmia Neonatorum. [^2 Premature infant. The operation of Caeserean Section was performed 4 times, 3 for contracted pelvis and 1 for Eclampsia. All the mothers recovered and 3 infants survived. One infant—in the eclampsia case—was stillborn. Instrumental delivery was required in 21 cases (8*7 per cent.), for Foetal distress (6), Contracted pelvis (6), Delayed second stage (4), Uterine inertia (2), Eclampsia (1), Placenta praevia (1), and hlemiplegia (1). One case of ]3uerperal fever occurred and was removed to the Clayton Hospital. The patient recovered. There were in addition 10 cases of pyrexia due to phlegmasia alba dolens, eclampsia, tuberculous pleurisy, mastitis, acute bronchitis, acute nephritis, influenza, pneumonia, and in 2 cases no cause could be ascertained. There was one case of ophthalmia neonatorum, which cleared up without damage to the sight, and 4 cases of slight inflammation of the eyes, all of which cleared up. All the infants, except 17, were completely breast fed. There were 2 maternal deaths, one from Placenta Praevia and Ante-partum Haemorrhage and one from Acute Pneumonia, complicating an abortion. Both patients were admitted as emergency cases. • There were 23 stillborn infants and the probable causes of these stillbirths are as follows :— Prolapsed cord Placenta Praevia . . Accidental haemorrhage . . Injuries from contracted pelvis . . ! Eclampsia . . Abnormal presentations . . 4 Albuminuria of mother 1 3 Induction of labour . . 1 3 Anencephalus . . . . 1 Prematurity . . . . 1 2 4)oubtful . . . . 3 2 2 2 infants died within 10 days of birth, both from prematurity. The average duration of stay in hospital was 14-S days. District Cases. Up to the end of 11)20, district midwifery was carried out by a midwife from the Maternity Hospital, but from the beginning of I 1927, the Municipal Midwife has resided outisde the Hospital.