[Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.
- Exeter (England). City Council
- Date:
- 1928
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MATERNAL MORTALITY. Four maternal mortality deaths occurred in connection with parturition and pregnancy, two being due to puerperal sepsis and two to other causes. Of the two cases of non-sepsis character, one death was due to Pulmonary Embolism and occurred at Saltash and was an inward transfer ; the other death w^as due to Heart Disease and Pneumonia. The two sepsis cases was notified as Puerperal Pyrexia : iu one case there was Albuminuria and Ante Partum Haemorrhage which received medical treatment and at the request of the doctor was removed to the Maternity Home ; there was extensive damage at the confinement and the patient was trans- ferred to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital the day following the confinement, her temf)erature then having risen. In the other case the sepsis was apparently contracted before the birth of the child as the temperature was raised before the confine- ment ; the confinement was attended by fits, and it seemed doubtful whether the death was due to sepsis or to a toxaemia of pregnancy. DEATHS FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Deaths from Measles ,, ,, Whooping Cough ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under two years of age) ,, ,, Scarlet Fever ,, ,, Diphtheria ,, ,, Enteric Fever ,, „ Encephalitis Lethargica ... ,, ,, Tuberculosis „ „ Pneumonia ... ,, ,, Puerperal Fever 4 4 12 9 rW 1 ] 50 49 9 The only point needing comment is that there was a satis- factory reduction of 23% in the number of deaths attributable to Tuberculosis,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29199062_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
