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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:
Glaxo 3172 1 lb. packets
Cow and Gate 2104 „
Trufood 39 „
Lactogal 84 tins
Virol 42 28 lb. tins
Ambrosia 1697 1 lb. packets
Lacta 1736 „
"Winsome" 48 „
Maternity Home
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1923:—
Cases admitted, 200.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by midwives, 188.
„ „ „ doctors, 12.
Cases in which medical advice sought, 23.
(a) Ante-natal, 1 (continued and excessive vomiting).
(b) During labour, 12 (Prolonged labour).
(c) After labour, 4 (Adherent placenta (1).
Rise of Temperature (2), Puerperal Insanity (1)).
(d) For infant, 6 (l, Malformation. 2, Stillborn.
3, Dangerous feebleness).
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse, 2.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Nil.
Inflammation (eyes), Nil.
Infants not entirely breast fed, 2 (a) insufficient breast milk.
(b) Phthisis.
Maternal deaths, Nil.
Fœtal deaths, 6 (2 Stillborn, 4 Prematurity.)