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PRE-NATAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
Dr. Mabel Muncey reports as follows:—
The number of new cases attending the clinic during 1934
rose to 191 and the total attendances to 888. Of these 51 were
mothers who attended after their confinements and made 120
attendances.
The number of cases removed from current list was 124.
11 removed from borough.
16 were found on examination to be non-pregnant,
and 3 cases miscarried.
The remaining 94 mothers gave birth to 91 living children,
3 Stillbirths occurring—two at apparently normal confinements in
their own homes with midwife in attendance, and no obvious
reason obtainable for death of the child. The third case confined
in hospital was a mother whose labour was a month overdue.
Confinements were normal in 88 mothers.
1 case of placenta praevia occurred.
2 cases of difficult breech deliveries requiring chloroform.
3 cases of instrumental deliveries in women with contracted
pelves-—where results for mothers and babies were satisfactory.
Two children died within an hour of birth in the same hospital
from meningeal haemorrhage. In one case the confinement was
apparently normal. The other was one of the cases of difficult
breech deliveries mentioned above, where it was found impossible
to turn the child.
2 cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified.
No case of puerperal pyrexia was notified.
The health of the 51 mothers who first attended the post-natal
clinic in 1934 was far from satisfactory, only 8 mothers being in
good general health with normal pelvic conditions.