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MUNICIPAL LYING-IN HOSTEL.
Report from January Ist to December 31 st, 1922.
(1) Total Number of Cases Admitted 138
(2) Average Duration of Stay 14 days
(3) Number of Cases Delivered by Midwives 124
(4) Number of Cases Delivered by Doctors 14
(5) Number of Cases in which Medical Assistance was sought
by Midwives 29
(a) Ante-Natal Nil
(b) during Labour 17
(c) after Labour 10
(d) for Infant 2
(6) Number of Cases Puerperal Sepsis with Result of Treatment
Nil
(7) Number of Cases in which Temperature rose above 100.4
for 24 hours with Rise of Pulse Rate 3
(8) Number of Cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
with Result of Treatment Nil
(9) Number of Cases Inflammation of the Eyes, however
slight 4
(10) Number of Infants not entirely Breast-fed while in
the Institution, with the reasons why they were not
Breast-fed 6
Badly-formed nipples or milk delayed in
primiparæ. Supplementary feeds given.
(11) Number of Maternal Deaths with Causes Nil
(12) Number of Fœtal Deaths, Stillborn or within 10 days
of Birth, and their Causes, and the results of PostMortem
Examination, if obtainable 7
Stillborn—3 Macerated foetus; 1 Complicated breech;
1 Delayed labour.
Deaths —1 Premature; 1 Persistent vomiting.