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PRE-NATAL OFFICER'S REPORT
During 1937, the number of new cases attending the ante-natal
and post-natal clinics was 256, and the total number of attendances
1,231, of which the post-natal attendances numbered 147.
The number of cases removed from the current list was 167
11 on account of removal from the borough,
12 found on examination to be non-pregnant.
Of the remaining 144 cases there were :—
134 live births ; in two cases the infants born prematurely
lived two days and twenty-one days respectively.
6 abortions, of which one received medical attention at home,
three received no medical attention and two were removed to
hospital, one developing puerperal fever. On subsequent examination
at the post-natal clinic, the report in all cases was satisfactory.
4 stillbirths occurred in cases of :—
Albuminuria, breech presentation with albuminuria, anencephalus,
and rupture of the uterus, the first and third being forceps
deliveries.
Confinements were normal in 133 cases, 3 were delivered by
forceps—two being stillbirths as above mentioned, the third a
case of difficult labour where the infant weighed 10 lbs.
Induction of labour was performed in a case of severe
albuminuria—referred to hospital.
One maternal death occurred. The mother attended the clinic
or. one occasion and because of her bad obstetric history she was
at ones referred to hospital where she died two months later of
rupture of the uterus with resulting stillbirth.
One case of ophthalmia neonatorum occurred—under hospital
treatment and with complete recover}'.
One case of congenital talipes equino varus occurred in a normal
delivery.
Two mothers, one suffering from acute pyelitis, the other from
post-influenzal nephritis, were sent to hospital.
78 mothers attended after confinement. 13 were found to be
in good health the remaining 65 being found to require treatment
for the following :—
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