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Croydon 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The Tables below give figures for 1944.
| No.as at Dec. 31st 1943 | Notice of Reception of Children during the year | Notice of removal to— | Children Adopted | Died | Children reaching age of 9 | No. as at Dec. 31st 1944 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | Another area with Foster Parent | Another Foster Mother | Public Institution | ||||||
| 144 | 126 | 76 | 51 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 1 87 |
| No. as at December 31st 1943 | Applications for Authorisation during the year. | Removals during the year | Authorisation cancelled for other reasons | No. as at December 31 st 1944 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With Child | Without child | ||||
| 150 | 31 | 11 | 40 | G9 | 61 |
The Health Visitors paid 972 visits to foster-mothers for
the purpose of supervision.
THE OBSTETRIC SERVICE.
The Obstetric Service has been described in my Report for
1938. The following are the statistics for 1944.
Taking the Registrar-General's figures for maternal mortality
(deaths directly due to pregnancy, but excluding abortion, the
rate for England and Wales for 1944 was 1.53 per 1,000 birthsIn
Croydon the rate was 1.08. In "booked" cases treated by the
Obstetric Service the rate for 1944 was 0.63 per 1,000 Hospital
deliveries; nil per 1,000 home deliveries, and 0.39 per 1,000 over
all deliveries.
The total rate for the Service, 0.39 per 1,000, is the lowest
ever recorded. The only death in booked cases was an abortion.
Of the cases treated to a conclusion at the Post-Natal Clinic
during 1944, 96.7 per cent, were classified as "Health Unimpaired."
This signifies that anatomically and functionally their
condition was the same as before their pregnancies. The corresponding
figure for 1943 was 88.9.