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MUNICIPAL LYING-IN HOSTEL.
Report from January 1st to December 31st, 1921.
(1) Total Number of Cases Admitted 156
(2) Average Duration of Stay 14 days
(3) Number of Cases Delivered by Midwives 145
(4) Number of Cases Delivered by Doctors 11
(5) Number of Cases in which Medical Assistance was
sought by Midwives 35
(a) Ante-Natal 1
(b) during Labour 13
(c) after Labour 16
(d) for Infant 5
(6) Number of Cases Puerperal Septis with Result of
Treatment 1 complete recovery
(7) Number of Cases in which Temperature rose above
100.4 for 24 hours with Rise of Pulse Rate 4
(8) Number of Cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
with Result of Treatment Nil
(9) Number of Cases Inflammation of the Eyes, however
slight 3
(10) Number of Infants not entirely Breast-fed while in
the Institution, with the reasons why they were not
Breast-fed Nil
(11) Number of Maternal Deaths with Causes Nil
Post Partum Hæmorrhage between second
and third week after delivery, due to
Polypus of the Uterus. Died after operation
for Removal in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe
Hospital Nil
(12) Number of Fœtal Deaths, Stillborn or within 10 days
of Birth, and their Causes, and the results of PostMortem
Examination, if obtainable Nil