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Number of cases in which temperature rose above
100·4° for 24 hours, with rise of pulse rate 5
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia
neonatorum, with result of treatment in each
case 2
Children cured in few days: cornea not involved.
Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while
in the Institution, with reasons why they were
not breast-fed 3
Mother treated phthisis.
Mother, rheumatism and carcinoma of breast.
Number of maternal deaths, with causes 1
Cesarean section for eclampsia.
Number of foetal deaths (stillborn or within 10
days of births) and their causes, and the
results of the post-mortem examination, if
obtainable 12
(I) still birth; (2) prolapse of cord; (3) malformation
of chest; (4) prematurity; (5) macerated foetus;
(6) convulsions (mother treated eclampsia); (7) prematurity;
(8) still birth; (9) white asphyxia; (10) craniotomy;
(II) anencephalous; (12) hydrocephalus.
The result of the first 9 months' work at the Maternity
Hospital, as will be seen from the above statistics, is gratifying
and encouraging. It should be remembered that the Maternity
Hospital is intended mainly for the reception of difficult and
complicated cases of labour, and of cases where, owing to unsatisfactory
home conditions, it is desirable that the woman
should be removed to hospital for her confinement. The district
midwifery service, which was not started until late in the year,
will make adequate provision for normal cases, and, when fully
developed, this service will be capable of meeting all the
demands which it is expected will be made on it.
District Midwifery Service.
The district midwifery service, for the attendance of
maternity cases at their own homes, was commenced at the close
of 1921, and up to the end of the year a few cases were
confined in their own homes by the district midwife. This
service is directed from the Borough Maternity Hospital, but it
is anticipated that more central accommodation, which will be
connected up by telephone with the Maternity Hospital, will be
available for the district midwife and her staff early in the