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rooms are connected with the Maternity Hospital by telephone, and
persons requiring her services at night can telephone to her from
the Police Stations. Particulars relating to the service during 1923
are set out below:—
Total number of cases attended on the district 136
Number of cases delivered by—
(а) Midwife 133
(б) Doctors 3
Number of cases where medical assistance was called for,
with reasons for. requiring assistance—
(a) During labour 3
In each case delayed second stage of labour.
(b) After labour 7
Torn perineum 4
p.p.h. 2
Retained placenta 1
7
(c) For infant 1
Dangerous feebleness.
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum,
with result of treatment 1
Attended St. Margaret's Hospital, subsequently
discharged cured.
Number of infants with discharge from the eyes, however
slight 4
Number of maternal deaths Nil
Number of infants' deaths within 10 days 3
Congenital heart disease 1
Prematurity 2
Number of still-births 1
Prematurity.
Number of cases of notified sepsis Nil
Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100·4
with rise of pulse Nil
Number of infants not entirely breast fed 2
In each case supplemental feeds were given until
breast feeding was satisfactorily established.