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Table III.
23 cases of active Pulmonary Tuberculosis, sub-divided into
sex and age groups:
Age 14 15—24 25—34 35—44 45—59 60 and over. Total all ages.
Males . — 1 2 2 3 1 9
Females 2 5 5 1 1 — 14
During 1947, out of 5,211 live and still births allocated to
Croydon, the Council's Obstetric Service dealt with 3,800, and of
these 1,816 were delivered at home by the municipal midwives;
1,280 in Mayday Hospital, and 704 in St. Mary's Hospital. The
beds in both hospitals—68 in Mayday and 30 in St. Mary's—were
kept fully occupied throughout the year; in fact, on occasion
there supervened an undesirable amount of overcrowding, and
this in spite of the system of priority which gave preference to
the admission of first births, abnormalities, and those living
under bad home conditions.
The Obstetric Unit, as a unit, has once again proved its,value
in providing an unbroken service of doctors and midwives
throughout a mother's pregnancy and confinement. Unfortunately,
it would appear that this most desirable continuity will be
broken when the provisions of the National Health Service Act
come into force, and, at any rate, theoretically, there will be three
separate and distinct administrative bodies concerned in what is