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Battersea 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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| 2 | 26 | ||
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| Number of maternal deaths | Nil | ||
| Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100-4° F. for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate | 2 | ||
| Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum with result of treatment | 5 | ||
| Number of cases with discharge from eyes however slight | 14 | ||
| Number of infants not entirely breast fed | 7 | ||
| Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis | Nil* | ||
| Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia | |||
| Number of foetal deaths (7 still-born, 11 within 10 days of birth) and their causes | 18 | ||
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| 1 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ||
| 2 | - | ||
| 7 | 11 | ||
The Consultant Obstetrician was called in in 11 cases of grave emergency, particulars of which are set out below:—
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Cost of Maternity Hospital.
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Borough Treasurer for
the following statement of the cost of the Home during the financial
year ended 31st March, 1932 :—
Maternity Hospital, 1931—2.
Total beds (excluding cots, labour and isolation beds), 28;
total cases, 527; average number of beds occupied during the
year, excluding cots, labour and isolation beds, 19-5 ; f number of
weeks spent in Institution by such patients, 10,107.
* One case originally notified as Puerperal Fever discharged from
hospital (13 days) as Puerperal Pyrexia.
†The decrease in the number of beds occupied is mainly due to the
abnormal number of cancellations of bookings.