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Barking 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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ANNUAL STATISTICS RELATING TO MATERNITY CASES ADMITTED TO UPNEY HOSPITAL AND ATTENDED ON THE DISTRICT.

Hospital.District.
Total number of cases admitted114
Average duration of stay14 days
Number of cases delivered—
(a) Midwives109152
(b) Doctors19
Number of cases in which medical attention was sought by the midwife with reasons for requiring assistance—
(a) Ante-natal11
(b) During labour26
(c) After labour14
(d) For infant65
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis with result of treatment in each case
Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate22
Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, with result of treatment in each case1
Number of cases of " inflammation of the eyes " however slight3
Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in the institution, with reasons why they were not breast-fed12
(Weakness of mother, depressed nipples)
Number of maternal deaths with causes

Number of foetal deaths (still-born or within ten days of
birth) and their causes, and the results of the post-mortem
examination, if obtainable: 2 macerated; 1 anencephalus; 2 premature,
and 1 heart.