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Battersea 1925
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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It will be noted that there is a satisfactory reduction in the
cost per patient per week (£2 12s. 3d.) as compared with £4 1 Is. 5d.
in 1924, £4 17s. 4d. in 1923, and £4 7s. Od. in 1922. This satisfactory
financial result has been due to the increased percentage of beds
occupied, and the reduction in the cost of structural and domestic
repairs and other miscellaneous charges. These reductions are
the more satisfactory as electric cooking was substituted for gas
during the year.
District Midwifery Service.
The District Midwifery Service for the attendance of patients
in their own homes was inaugurated at the close of 1921. During
1925 there were 119 cases attended by the District Midwife, a
decrease of 33 as compared with 1924. This may partly be due to
the transfer of 17 cases for reasons of health or other unsuitable
conditions for admission to the Borough Maternity Hospital.
Particulars relating to this Service during 1925 are set out below:—
| Total number of cases attended | 119 | |
| Number of cases delivered by— | ||
| 114 | ||
| 5 | ||
| Number of cases where medical assistance was called for, with reasons for requiring assistance— | ||
| Ante-partum haemorrhage | 1 | |
| Delayed labour | 5 | |
| Post-partum haemorrhage | 3 | |
| Retained placenta | 2 | |
| Torn perineum | 4 | |
| Dangerous feebleness | 6 | |
| Number of maternal deaths | Nil. | |
| Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum, with result of treatment | 3 | |
| (Attended St. Thomas's Hospital, subsequently discharged cured.) | ||
| Number of infants with discharge from the eyes, how-ever slight | 8 | |
| Number of infants not entirely breast-fed (Insufficient breast milk.) | 2 | |
| Number of foetal deaths | 6 | |
| Congenital heart | 2 | |
| Prematurity | 1 | |
| Pyloric Stenosis | 1 | |
| Stillborn | 1 | |
| Anencephalus | 1 | |