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At the end of the year 219 cases were booked for future
admission to the Home.
The average number of patients in the Home per day during
1931 was 19.61, and the average length of stay of patients 14.36
days.
Of the 510 cases admitted during 1931, 503 were confined in
the Home, 3 cases were admitted for observation only, and in 4
cases the babies were born before arrival at the Home.
In 15 of the 503 confinements the patient had been previously
admitted for varying periods of observation, being subsequently
re-admitted for the confinement.
Of the 503 confinements there were:—
(а) 316 cases of first confinement.
(b) 187 cases having their second or subsequent
ment.
Of the total cases confined in the Home:—
(a) TO cases were living in 2 rooms or less (48 being first
confinements).
(b) 141 cases were living in 3 rooms, 93 being first
finements).
Of the 503 confinements, 30 women had engaged their own
doctor, 7 of these cases were, however, delivered by a midwife,
the doctor not being piesent at the birth. 473 were attended by
one of the midwives at the Home.