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One ease of ophthalmia neonatorum (gonococcal) occurred. The mother
and child were removed to St. Margaret's Hospital. The infant recovered
without any defect of vision.
The following cases had to be removed to the Isolation Hospital:—Two
cases of influenza; one case of mastitis; one case of acute primary pneumonia;
one case of tonsillitis; one case of septic neck; one case of axillary abscess;
two cases of haemolytic streptococcal infection; one of the throat and the
other a uterine cervical carrier. All of these cases made satisfactory
recoveries.
The Consulting Obstetrician paid the usual fortnightly visits,
to the Home. During 1931, he paid 25 ordinary visits, and
examined 113 patients referred from the Ante-Natal Clinics.
During the year he was also called in ten times for other casesr
as follows:—
To perform Caesarian operations 5
For consultation re ante-partum haemorrhage and cord
presentation 1
For consultation re placenta praevia 2
For consultation re probable Caesarian section 1
For consultation re uterine inertia and subsequent
delivery 1
The reasons for the five Caesarian section operations were as
follows:—
Disproportionate measurements 2
Contracted pelvis 1
Extended breech 2
The infant mortality rate of children born in the Maternity
Home was 30.3 per 1,000 births, as compared with 64. born in
their own homes. The figure of 64. has been arrived at after
deduction of all deaths of infante from the Maternity Home, and
is calculated on the total births in the district excluding those in
the Maternity Home.