Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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ANNUAL STATISTICS FOR 1941 (Relating to the Beckenham and Penge Joint Maternity Home)
[No. | Information Required | Particulars | |
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1. | Name and Address of Institution. | Beckenham & Penge Joint Maternity Home. Stone Park Avenue, Beckenham. | |
2 . | Number of maternity beds in the Institution (exclusive of isolation and labour beds) | 34 | |
2a. | Number of such beds used for Ante-Natal cases. | ||
3. | Number of Maternity cases | Beckenham 228) | 310 |
admitted during the year | Penge 79) | ||
Out District 3) | |||
4. | Average duration of stay | 14 days. | |
5. | Number of cases delivered by:-(a) Midwives | 236 | |
(b) Doctors | 65 | ||
(c) Post-Natal Cases | 5 (Four patients transferred to Hospitals undelivered) | ||
6. | Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a midwife in emergency. | 103 | |
7. | Number of cases notified as:- (a) Puerperal Fever | Nil | |
(b) Puerperal Pyrexia | 11 | ||
8. | Number Of cases of Pemphigus Neonatorum. | Nil | |
9. | Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in Institution | 15 | |
10. | (a) Number of cases . notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum | One | |
(b) Result of treatment in each case | Satisfactory, | ||
11. | (a) Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil. | |
12. | (a) Number of Foetal Deaths: | ||
(i) Stillborn | 8 | ||
(ii) Within 10 days of birth | 3 |