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Home has a nominal capacity of 12 beds, this figure must be regarded
as exceedingly satisfactory, demonstrating beyond any question of
doubt the fact that the Council's Home has supplied a very real
need in the Borough.
It is of course impossible to forecast the exact date upon which a
patient will require accommodation and for this reason it is unwise
to accept more cases than are represented by about 85 per cent.
of the available accommodation; the Council may therefore
congratulate itself that within less than two years of establishing
their home the accommodation available was almost fully taken up;
as a matter of fact, more than 12 patients had to be accommodated
in the Home during no less than 10 weeks of the year, the highest
point being reached the first week in October, when the average
reached almost 16.
Of the 228 cases admitted, the following brief details are
submitted:—
Number of cases delivered by Midwives 205
„ „ „ Doctors „ 23
Medical assistance was sought in five instances under the
following conditions:—
Ante-Natal 1
During Labour 1
After Labour 2
For Infant 1
One case only of Puerperal Sepsis has to be reported, and this
was of a patient in connection with whom the Septic conditions
were present prior to Admission. The case was transferred to the
Metropolitan Asylums Board as soon as removal was considered
possible.
There were no notified cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The number of Infants Still-born was 6, whilst 4 infants died
within 10 days of birth, the particulars of which are as follows:—
Congenital Malformation of Heart (1½ hrs.) 1
Imperforate Oesophagus and other Malformations
(3rd day) 1
Melaenae Neonatorum (Hæmaphiliac) (5th day) 1
Congenital Heart Disease (4th day) 1
Of the 218 living Infants it is gratifying to be able to report
that all but six were breast fed.
Pre-Maternity Clinics.—The attendances for the year were
807, which compared with last year's figure of 609 indicates the
steadily increasing popularity of the Council's Ante-Natal Clinics.