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2 patients were admitted from outside the district on the
recommendation of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
63 cases could not be admitted during the year owing to lack
of accommodation.
At the end of the year 181 cases were booked for future
admission to the Home.
The average number of patients in the Home per day during
1930 was 19 -25, and the average length of stay of patients 14 -52
days.
Of the 489 cases admitted during 1930, 481 were confined in
the Home, 2 cases were admitted for observation only, 3 were
cases of inevitable abortion, and in 3 cases the babies were born
before arrival at the Home.
In 19 of the 481 confinements the patient had previously been
admitted for varying periods of observation, being subsequently
re-admitted for the confinement.
Of the 481 confinements there were :—
(a) 276 cases of first confinement.
(b) 205 cases having their second or subsequent
ment.