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Form M.C.W. 96a.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Return relating to Maternity Hospitals and Homes maintained or subsidised
by the Council during the year.
1. Name and address of Institution—St. Andrew's Hospital, Devons Road,
Bow, E.3.
2. Number of beds in the Institution—12.
3. Number of cases admitted during the year—74.
4. Average duration of stay—14.66 days.
5. Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives—69.
(b) Doctors—5 (forceps deliveries).
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a midwife—18.
7. Number of cases notified as—
(a) Puerperal fever—Nil.
(b) Puerperal pyrexia—Nil.
8. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
9. Number of infants not entirely breastfed while in the Institution—10.
10. (a) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—Nil.
(b) Result of treatment in each case—
11. (a) Number of maternal deaths—Nil.
(b) Cause of death in each case.
12. (a) N umber of foetal deaths—
(i) Stillborn—Nil.
(ii) Within 10 days of birth—1.
(b) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem examination
(if obtainable)—Cerebral Anaemia; no post-mortem was held.
Miss J. M. Cardozo, Chief Health Visitor, reports as follows:—
Home Visiting.—Home visiting, as usual, takes first place in the
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme. It is well to remember that it is
the mother who is anxious to do the best for her children who comes to the
Infant Consultations, but there are many who cannot come and still more
who do not wish to come. These last need constant and patient visiting.
In spite of the re-housing that is taking place there are many cases of
overcrowding. Mothers struggle on under almost unsurmountable
difficulties, some with extraordinarily good results due to cleanliness and
management, but others give up and make little or no effort to improve