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Particulars relating to the cases dealt with during 1936 are
as follows:—
(a) Persons admitted—
New cases 413
Patients treated ante-natally in 1935 who
re-entered during 1936 5
Total persons admitted 418
(b) Number of admissions—
For confinement 409
For ante-natal treatment (41 patients) 41
Total admissions 450
(c) Number of confinements—
Admitted 1935, confined 1936 1
Admitted and confined 1936 405
Total confinements. 406
Admitted but not yet confined at end of year 4
Number of deliveries—
By midwives 377
,, doctors 27
404
Number born before arrival 2
Total births (including 8 pairs of twins)414
Number of maternal deaths Nil
Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum
with result of treatment. (All cured) 3
Number of cases with discharge from eyes however
slight 15
Number of infants not entirely breast fed 18
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis Nil
Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia 14
Number of infant deaths (8 still-born, 5 within
10 days of birth) and their causes 13
Still Birth— Died within 10 days—
Breech presentation anen- Prematurity (albuminuria in
cephalic 1 mother: surgical induction) 1
Uterine inertia : maternal dis- Congenital atresia of duo-
tress : forceps 1 denum, ileum and caecum:
Placenta praevia; frank breech; patent foramen ovale 1
macerated foetus (6 weeks Prematurity (surgical induc-
premature) ( pre eclamptic tion for severe toxaemia in
toxaemia in mother) 1 mother) 1
Placenta praevia : surgical Prematurity (spontaneous pre-
rupture of membranes: mature labour : no known
anencephalic 1 abnormality in mother)
Accidental haemorrhage : sur- (twins) 2
gical rupture of membranes :
toxaemia in mother .1
Hydramnios : surgical rupture
of membranes : hydrocephalic
1
Primary uterine inertia : long
second stage : foetal distress;
forceps : cord round neck 1
Surgical rupture of membranes:
prolonged labour : impacted
shoulders (pre-eclamptic
toxaemia in mother)1
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