Medical report : 1932 / Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • Princess Mary Maternity Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
Date:
1932
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Credit: Medical report : 1932 / Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. 1045. ii-gravida. Age 26. Placenta praevia. Ad¬ mitted after slight bleeding at the 36th week in good condition. There was a marginal placenta praevia and she was not in labour. After 5 days in Hospital more severe bleeding began, a bipolar version was performed, and a foot brought down. No further haemorrhage occurred and 9 hours later she expelled a still-born foetus. 6 hours after delivery there was sudden collapse and death. 8. 1351. ii-gravida. Age 28. Post-partum eclampsia. This patient had a perfectly normal ante-natal record and came in at term to deliver herself of a 10 lbs. baby. On admission the urine contained no abnormal constituents. Progress after delivery was uneventful until the third day when she had three tits and died in 15 minutes. Post-mortem, there were early degenerative changes in the liver and renal cortex but no other abnormality. 9. 2047. ii-gravida. Age 24. Ruptured Caesarean scar. A patient who was admitted at term with a contracted pelvis having been delivered by Caesarean section for her first child. On admission she was moribund, being exsanguinated, pulseless and cold with signs that the ovum was in the peritoneal cavity. With a little local anaesthetic the abdomen was opened, the ovum extracted, the uterus rapidly sutured (too ill for hysterectomy) and the abdomen closed. She died half an hour later. 10. 2084. i-gravida. Age 25. Influenzal pneumonia. Admitted in labour at term in good condition. Forceps delivery effected for foetal distress. An epidemic of influenza was occurring inside and outside the Hospital and on the 4th day of the puer- perium after a sore throat and headache with pains in the limbs the patient developed a temperature of 103.4° with a pulse rate of 140. Soon afterwards there was consolidation of the lower lobe of the right lung with pleuritic friction. The consolidation spread and she died on the 12th day of the puerperium. Through¬ out there was no evidence of genital infection. MATERNAL DEATHS. Emergency Cases (36). 11. 60. iv-gravida. Age 34. Acute broncho-pneumonia. Admitted 14 weeks pregnant with acute broncho-pneumonia of 3 days duration. 12 hours after admission there was spontaneous expulsion of the ovum and death occurred. 12. 191. i-gravida. Age 19. Eclampsia. Admitted in coma at the 38th week with stertorous breathing, general anasarca and urine which solidified on boiling. There was a history of 4 fits before admission and in 5 hours after admission 8 further fits occurred. Routine treatment was given but there was almost complete suppression of urine. 12 hours after admission with the patient in deep coma a still-born child was delivered with forceps and death occurred shortly afterwards.