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The following table shows the number of confinements in the hospitals
mentioned:—
Table LVIII.
Charing Cross Hospital: 428, of which 61 were Westminster cases.
St. George's Hospital: 300, of which £51 were Westminster case.4.
Westminster Hospital: 314, of which 126 were Westminster cases.
Sheffield St. Hospital: 138, place of residence unknown.
St. Stephen's Hospital: 220, all were Westminster cases.
Convalescent Treatment.—The Council has during the year contributed
towards the cost of the convalescent treatment of 9 Westminster patients
at the Infants Hospital convalescent home at Burnham. and 7 necessitous
mothers, suffering from poor health following confinement, have been sent
to various convalescent homes with their babies at the cost of the Council,
to recuperate for appropriate periods. The total cost of this service
was £47 15s. 9d.
• Maternal Mortality.—The number of maternal deaths in Westminster
during the year ended December, 1934, was 4, which gives a maternal
mortality rate of 3.3 per thousand (live and still) births, as compared
with the rate for the whole country of 4.4 per thousand (live and still)
births. A summary of results of enquiry are given below:—
(1) M. (29).—Attended ante-natal clinic at hospital. Admitted to
hospital two days prior to confinement with diaphragmatic pleurisy.
Became comatose 31/2, hours before delivery of stillborn child by forceps,
and died in eclamptic coma 3| hours after delivery. (First birth.)
(2) M. (35).—Forceps delivery after 51 hours of labour owing to presence
of Bandl's ring round neck of child preventing delivery of shoulders.
Died in nursing home of uraemia and splanchnic shock 2 days later.
(First birth.)
(3) Spinster. (21).—Admitted to hospital as an inevitable abortion.
Patient developed paramatritis and B. Coli pyelitis and subsequent
lung trouble developed into pleural effusion. She died 11 days after
the abortion. Three blood transfusions were given. (First birth.)
(4) M. (29).—Attended ante-natal clinic at hospital. Forceps delivery
after 41 hours of labour. Died in hospital of puerperal peritonitis after
14 days' illness. (First birth.)
Puerperal Sepsis.—The special hospital provisions in the first place of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board and latterly of the London County Council
(9169) F 2