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Sick Nursery.
No change in the administration of this part of the work is to be
recorded. The need of better premises is felt more and more every
year. The work of looking after infants in the existing circumstances
is one of extreme difficulty, and is undoubtedly quite inadequate for a
town the size of Croydon. The absence of proper accommodation for
food storage, proper washing accommodation, and the impossibility of
any kind of open-air treatment for the children, or of even garden
exercise for children over one year constitute drawbacks which are only
overcome by the greatest skill on the part of the doctors and nurses
responsible for this work. Below are given the statistics for 1921.
Sick Nursery, 228, London Road.
Number of cases at Nursery at end of 1920 4
Number admitted during 1921 57
Number discharged during 1921 57
Number died during 1921
Number remaining at end of 1921 4
Notification of Births Act, 1907.
During the past year 3,428 notifications were received. These
births were notified as follows:—
Notified by medical men 874
Notified by parents 714
Notified by certified midwives 1744
3332
Stillborn births notified 96
3428
Midwives.
During the year 317 visits were paid to midwives by the Inspector
of Midwives for the purpose of obtaining information or inspection.
At the end of 1920 32 midwives were registered as practising in
Croydon, and during 1921 four new names were added, and with one
name having been removed from the list, a total of 35 remained on the
register at the end of 1921.
The rules of the Central Midwives Board require medical help to be
called in by the midwife in a number of specified conditions, and 137
records of sending for such medical help were received. The following
table gives a summary of these cases:—