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58 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Number of cases delivered by:—
(a) Midwives 423
(b) Doctors 29
Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought
by the midwife 149
(a) Ante-natal 21
Small measurements 17
Albuminuria 4
(b) During labour 55
Prolonged labour 18
Abnormal presentation 7
Laceration 28
Foetal distress 2
(c) After labour 9
Puerperal Mania 2
Eclampsia 1
Rise of temperature 4
Uterine Fibroid 1
Skin disease 1
(d) For infant 64
Feebleness 11
Deformities 1
P.U.O. 1
Watery discharge from eyes 47
Opthalmia Neonatorum 1
Congenital Syphilis 1
Asphyxia and Convulsions 2
Number of cases of puerperal sepsis Nil
Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100 4
for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate 4
Number of cases of ophthalmia neonatorum 1
Number of cases of "inflammation of the eyes" however
slight 47
Number of infants not entirely breast fed while in the
institution 16
Number of maternal deaths with causes—Eclampsia 1