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Number of maternal deaths 0
Number of cases in which temperature rose above
100.4° F. for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate 15
Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia neonatorum
with result of treatment 3
(All cured. No permanent damage to eyes. 2 transferred
to St. Margaret's Hospital for treatment.)
Number of cases with discharge from eyes however
slight 43
Number of infants not entirely breast fed 7
Anaemia of mother 1 Phthisis of mother 1
Prematurity and deficiency 2 Mastitis 1
Rheumatism and heart disease 1 Chronic albuminuria 1
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis Nil
Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia
(5 recovered, 1 died from tuberculosis) 6
Number of foetal deaths (still-born or within 14
days of birth) and their causes 23
Haemorrhage 1 Drugs (macerated) 1
Complicated breech 1 Purpura 1
Shortness of cord 1 Prematurity 6 Prematurity and pernicious 1 ■/ x
vomiting 1
Asphyxa 1
Hydrocephalus 1 Albuminuria in mother
Head injury—craniotomy 1 (macerated )5
Anencephalus 1 Causes unknown 2
The Consultant Obstetrician was called in in 12 cases of grave
emergency, particulars of which are set out below:—
A.P.H. (accidental) 1 Appendicitis 1
Cæsarean section 1 Severe anaemia after P.P.H.
Ruptured urethra after forceps and adherent placenta 1
delivery 1 B. coli in urine 1
Contracted pelvis 1 Central placenta prasvia 1
Hyperemesis gravidarum 1 Induction 1
Purulent discharge, absorption Chronic nephritis and rise of
&c. 1 temperature 1
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Borough Treasurer for
the following statement of the cost of the Home during the financial
year ended 31st March, 1928:—