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(c) Number of confinements—
Admitted 1937, confined 1938 1
Admitted and confined 1938 452
Total confinements 453
Admitted but not yet confined at end of year 1
Received ante-natal treatment only 14
Number of deliveries—
By midwives 413
„ doctors 40
453
Number born before arrival 2
Total births (including 9 pairs of twins) 462
Number of maternal deaths Nil*
Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum
with result of treatment (Unknown—nonBorough
case) 1
Number of infants not entirely breast fed 40
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis 1
Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia 4
Number of infant deaths (7 still-born, 4 within
10 days of birth) and their causes 11
Still birth Died within 10 days—
Foetus macerated 3 Prematurity 1
Ante-partum haemorrhage, Intercranial haemorrhage 1
(prolapsed chord) 1 Congenital haemorrhage,
Premature 1 mongolism 1
Post-mature 1 Congenital microcephalic idiocy 1
Caesarean section 1
7 4
Closure of Hospital.
During the past few years the Maternity Hospital, like other
hospitals, but in greater degree than many, has suffered from that
general shortage of nursing staff which has become such a disquieting
feature. An institution such as the Council's hospital, with its
small staff and consequent lack of social amenities could not expect
to obtain nurses in competition with the larger London institutes.
The difficulty of finding staff had already, in 1936, been the chief
reason for the temporary closing of the hospital in that year, and
in 1938 the difficulty recurred in more accentuated form.
* 1 patient suffering from rheumatic endocarditis was transferred to
St. James's Hospital and died there.