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MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
North Middlesex Hospital:—The maternity admissions from
Hornsey to the North Middlesex Hospital numbered 159 in 1942, as
compared with 127 in 1941.
MIDWIFERY SERVICES.
There were 14 Midwives, including 5 Borough Midwives. notified
to the Middlesex County Council as practising in the Borough, 5 of
whom reside outside the Borough.
The Borough Midwives attended 481 births, in addition to antenatal
clinics held at the Welfare Centres. One of the conditions upon
which the Council's Midwives accept a case is that the expectant
mother shall attend an ante-natal clinic.
Three thousand six hundred and ninety-seven births have been
attended by the Borough Midwives since the appointment of a Midwife
was first made in 1922.
PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH.
Up to the end of the year 108 mothers had had gas and air
administered at their confinements and the results may be claimed
to be very satisfactory.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936 (Sec. 203).
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
All live births and still births of seven months and over must be
notified to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours, in addition
to being registered within a period of six weeks after birth.
SUMMARY OF BIRTHS NOTIFIED, 1942.
Male
Female.
Total.
Live births
690
580
1,270
Still births
27
4
31
717
584
1,301
The births were notified:—
By doctors 14
,, Borough Midwives 431
,, other Midwives 222
,, Hospitals 159
,, Others 442
1,268
Un-notified (from Registrar's returns):-
Live births 30
Still births 3
33
1,301
Of this number there were:—
Live births Still births.
Occurring in the Borough and transferred
to other districts 144 5
Belonging to Hornsey and occurring in
Hospitals, etc., outside the district 546 16