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District Midwifery Service.
During 1936 there were 165 cases attended in their own homes
by the District Midwife as compared with 189 in the previous year.
Particulars relating to this service during the year are set out
below:—
Total number of cases attended in the district
(Booked in 1935, 49; booked in 1936, 116)
...
165
Average number of visits to each case
14
Number of cases :—
(a) Delivered by midwife (147 infants)
142
(b) „ doctors (4 infants)
...
4
(c) Born before arrival (13 infants)
...
12
(d) Referred to hospital (7 infants)
...
7
Total births (live, 166 ; still, 4)
...
170
Total number of bookings in 1936
...
186
Number thereof cancelled or transferred
21
„ confined during 1936
116
„ not confined in that year
49
186
Number of cases where medical assistance was summoned
with reasons for requiring assistance :—
la) Ante-natal—2.
(c) After labour—9.
Complicated breech
1
Post-partum haemorrhage
3
Footling
1
Ruptured perineum
5
2
Other reasons
1
9
(b) During labour—20.
Prolonged labour
11
(?) Presentation (triplets)
1
(d) For infant—8.
Abnormal presentation
1
Watery or sticky eyes
2
Retained placenta, &c.
1
Asphyxia
2
Ante-partum hemorrhage
1
Septic spots
1
Uterine inertia
Cyanosis, &c
1
? Eclamptic fits
1
Phimosis
1
Haemorrhage and collapse
1
Talipes
1
20
8
Number of cases of—
Puerperal sepsis
Nil
Puerperal pyrexia
Nil
Maternal deaths
Nil
Still births (including 1 pair of twins)
4
Deaths of infants within 10 days
3