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and pass round the lower part of the abdomen and down the legs. Some
sickness and occasionally shivering may be experienced and the discharge from
the front passage is often bloodstained.
The patient must be accompanied to the Home by a friend, who must
wait until the patient is admitted and take away the patient's clothes.
The patient should bring a hair brush and comb, one dozen handkerchiefs,
a tooth brush, soap, hair ribbon, one pair of stockings and a pair of
slippers. A set of baby clothes, consisting of knitted woollen belt, woollen
vest with long sleeves, long flannel, long dress of calico or nainsook, should
be sent to the Home the day prior to the patient's discharge.
In the event of any infectious disease occurring in the household of the
patient prior to admission, immediate notice should be sent to the Matron.
Where scarlet fever has occurred in the applicant's household within less than
a week of the probable date of confinement, admission to the Maternity Home
cannot be entertained because of the danger to other patients; under these
circumstances the patient must make other arrangements for her confinement.
Visiting Days:—Sundays 2.0 p.m.—3.30 p.m. Husband only.
Wednesdays 7.0 p.m.—8.0 p.m. Husband or
female friend.

NOTE.—The Standard of Morbidity is taken as :—" The rising of the temperature to 100° F., on
at least two occasions between the second and eighth days."
The maternal mortality was nil.