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During the year 12 cases have been referred to the District
Midwife, sufficient accommodation at the Home not being available.
These cases are included in the report on the work of the
District Midwife below.
The patients were admitted to the Home from the following'
wards:—
Cranbrook 23
Park 31
Seven Kings 22
North Hainault 21
Loxford 37
Clementswood 45
South Hainault 25
Eleven patients were admitted from outside the district on
the recommendation of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
At the end of the year 99 cases were booked for future admission
to the Home.
The average number of patients in the Home per day during
1925 was 8'62, and the average length of stay of patients 13'93
days.
Of the 215 cases admitted during 1925, 213 were confined
in the Home, and two were admitted as cases of threatened premature
labour.
Of the 213 confinements, 40 women had engaged their own
doctor. Four cases were, however, delivered by a midwife,
the doctor not being present at the birth. 173 were attended by
one of the midwives at the Home.
It was necessary to call in a doctor in 59 of the latter cases,
owing to the following complications:—
Albuminuria 6
General condition of mother 3
(a) Ante-natal 12 Contracted pelvis 2
Ante-partum haemorrhage and
mitral regurgitation 1
Promolonged labour 13
Secondary uterine inertia 3
During labour 21 Foetal distress 2
Extended breech 2
Bartholinitis 1