[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough.

  • Newport (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Breaches of the C.M.B. Rules and Public Health Regulations :— Not sending record of advising Medical Help ... i Not sending in record of liability to be a source of infection 2 Delay in notifyng „ „ ,, i , ,, Stillbirth ... ... ... i „ Artificial Feeding ... ... i ,, Discharging Eyes... ... ... i Failure to notify Stillbirth ... ... ... i ,, ,, Death ... ... ... i Delay in sending for Medical Help for Mother ... i ,, n Baby ... ... 3 Continuing to practise without disinfection after being in contact with infection • ... ... ... 2 Records in Registers not properly or incorrectly filled up ... 51 Cases not entered in Register ... ... ... 4 Carelessness in handling of Records ... ... i The Inspector of midwives made 226 visits and there were also 73 interviews at the Health Department. Notification of Stillbirths, 52 stillbirths occurred in the midwives’ practice. According to the midwives’ records the causes of stillbirths were as follows :— Prematurity and Twins ... ... ... 4 Maceration and Strangulation ... ... 20 Placenta Praevia and Ante Partum Haemorrhage ... i Full time labour—reason of Stillbirth* unknown ... 17 Contracted Pelvis, long labour, abnormal presentations 10 Infectious Diseases in Midwives' Home or Practice : — In Home— Puerperal Fever ... i I Puerperal Pyrexia ... 2 I Diphtheria ... i In Practice—Puerperal Fever ... 3 Puerperal Pyrexia ... 6 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 10 Pemphigus ... 2 Scarlet Fever ... i Tonsilitis and Mastitis ... i Pneumonia ... 2 In all these, precautions were successfully taken to prevent the spread of the infection.