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MUNICIPAL LYING-IN HOSTEL.
Report from January 1st to December 31st, 1923.
(1) Total Number of Cases Admitted 143
(2) Average Duration of Stay 14 days
(3) Number of Cases Delivered by Midwives 138
(4) Number of Cases Delivered by Doctors 5
(5) Number of Cases in which Medical Assistance was
sought by Midwives 17
(a) Ante-Natal Nil
( b) during Labour 5
(c) after Labour 12
(d) for Infant 5
(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 Nil
(8) Number of Cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
with Result of Treatment 2
(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 10
Badly-formed nipples or milk delayed in
primiparæ. Supplementary feeds given.
(11) Number of Maternal Deaths with Causes Nil
(12) Number of Foetal Deaths, Stillborn or within 10
days of Birth, and their Causes, and the results of
Post-Mortem Examination, if obtainable 5
Stillborn —1 Macerated foetus; 2 Complicated
breech; 1 Delayed labour.
Deaths—1 Premature; Heart 1,