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Attendances have been affected by the fact that
a number of expectant mothers, who used to be sent
by the Salvation Army Midwives, now attend the
out-patient department of the Mothers' Hospital,
Clapton, and the ante-natal work of the London
Hospital is extending.
The expectant mothers, 350 in number, may be
grouped as follows : —
Number of primigravidsæ .. 43
Number of multigravidæ 307
Pull-term confinements, including
3 stillbirths 248
Premature births 3
Caesarian section 1
Miscarriages 13
Not yet confined (March 28th,
1925) 76
Left Borough, result unknown . . 9
Wassermann reaction for syphilis : —-
Number of blood-tests 9
Number of positive 3
The Medical Officer in Charge, Dr. N. Pinkrton, writes: —
" One hundred and twenty-five women attended to see if
they were pregnant, and 50 were found not to be so.
"Of the 13 miscarriages which occurred amongst expectant
mothers in attendance, four only had come to see if they
were pregnant, two were suffering from cervical polypi, and
three attended when a miscarriage was inevitable, one of
these latter having a leaking ectopic gestation which was
successfully operated upon.
"Of the three stillborn births, one was macerated, one
was a brow presentation, and one was born in a hospital and
no reason for its death was known to us.
"No mother died of childbirth, but three mothers in
attendance died of other conditions.