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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
The rate per 1,000 total births was 9.0 in 1933, as compared
with 5.0 the previous year.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, Child
Birth:—
(a) From Sepsis, 0; (b) Other causes, 6.
In England and Wales for the last: thirty years there has been a
decline in both the general death rate and the infantile mortality
rate. During this period, however, the maternal mortality rate has
continued to remain at the relatively constant figure of 4 deaths
per 1,000 births. The efforts now being devoted to the subject of
preventive midwifery, and the widespread propaganda with the aim
of educating women in the principles of pregnancy hygiene and the
paramount importance of skilled supervision throughout pregnancy,
should effect within the next few years a steady reduction in
puerperal mortality and morbidity.
Provision of Maternity Beds in Hospitals.—The Council
adopted the following scheme by which maternity patients may be
admitted to the Mothers' Hospital, Clapton.
That the Council pay the sum of one guinea in respect of each
necessitous case admitted from the Borough.
A necessitous case is defined as one who, by reason of poverty
or other causes, is unable to pay for the treatment received, an
amount equal to one-half the average cost per patient of the maintenance
and administration charges. Last year the cost per inpatient
was £8 16s. 5d.
During the year the Council paid the sum £15 15s. 0d. in respect
of 15 cases admitted to the Hospital under the above arrangement.