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Dried Milk, Virol, &c.
During the year the following amounts of dried milk, Virol, &c.,
were distributed, mostly at cost price, to the mothers attending the
Infant Welfare Centres:—
Total
Glaxo 3891 1 lb. packets
Cow and Gate 2330 „
Cow and Gate, half cream 152 „
Lactogal 292 tins
Virol 56 28 lb. tins
Ambrosia 822 1 lb. packets
Lacta 319 „ „
Dinner Tickets.
During the year 64 tickets were granted to necessitous expectant
mothers for dinners at the Albany Institute (Deptford Fund).
Maternity Home.
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1922:—
Cases admitted, 129.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by mdwives, 120.
„ „ „ doctors, 8.
Cases in which medical advice sought, 11.
(a) Ante-natal, 1 (ante-partum haemorrhage).
(b) During labour, 8 (Prolonged labour).
(c) After labour 1 (post-partum haemorrhage).
(d) For infant 1 (asphyxia).
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse, 6.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Nil.
Inflammation (eyes), Nil.
Not entirely breast-fed, 2 (insufficient breast milk).
Maternal deaths, Nil.
Foetal deaths, 1 stillborn, after prolonged labour and forceps
delivery.
2 within 10 days of birth:—
(a) Premature (at 28 weeks).
(b) Partial obstruction of intestine by bands.