[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    30/62 (page 18)
    Routine Work under the Act;— The returns sent in by tlie certifietl midwives, altliougli incomplete, show that they attended 3,874 births in ip20, out of a total of 5,195, leavuig less than 1,321 or 25 ])er cent, to be attended by medical men and uncertified midwives. Sending for Medical Help by Midwives.—An anal ysis of the reasons for sending for medical help has been made and is given in the following statement. The information available is frequently insufficient. For Mother. During pregnancy .. .. .. .. .. .. 47 Haemorrhage . . .. . . .. ii Threatened abortioai . . . . • ■ W Accident .. .. .. .. .. o Varicose veins . . . . . . . . 3 Convulsions .. .. .. . . 5 Deformity . . .. .. .. 4 Other causes .. . . .. . . 7 At Labour . . .. . . . . .. .. .. 520 Premature labour . . . . . . 20 Uterine inertia and prolonged labour. . 243 .\bortions, miscarriages and still-births 45 Abnormal presentation .. . . . . 27 Placejita praevia. . . . . . . . 2 Haemorrhage . . . . . . . . 22 Convulsions . . . . . . . . 4 Ruptured perinaeum . . . . • • 113 Adherent placenta and retained mem¬ branes . . . . . . .. 28 Other causes .. .. .. .. 16 After labour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Rise of temperature . . . . .. 2^ Other causes . . .. .. .. 10 T'eebleness Malformatio)! .. Discharge from eyes Convulsions For hild II 70 7 So far it has jiot been jxjssible to make s\-stcmatic inquiries into still-births through the health visitors. .Analysis f)f the 70 notifications of still-births sent in by midwives shows that — 34 were at full time ; 33 ■i)remature ; in 3 no statement. The condition of the child ])oi]ited to— Death during labour or shortly before in 34 ; death some time before labour in 31 ; in 5 there was no indi('ation given. The ])rese]itations were ; head 48, breech 12. lu 10 cases the presentatiojis were not mentioned.