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53
MATERNITY WARD.
The admission to the Maternity Ward of the Municipal Hospital
numbered 221, compared with 206 in 1926. Of these 45 cases were
admitted for ante-natal treatment, and 176 for confinement.
Corresponding figures for 1926 were 37 cases for ante-natal treatment,
and 169 for confinement. The number of cases confined
in the Ward represents 24.7 per cent. or approximately 1 in 4 of the
total births of the district, a proportion which it is hoped will
increase still further.
(1) Number of cases admitted 221
(45 of which Ante-natal)
(2) Average duration of stay
Confinement cases 13.9days
Ante-natal cases 11.2 days
(3) Number of cases delivered by:—
(a) Midwives 168
(b) Doctors 8
(4) Number of cases in which medical assistance was
sought by the midwife with reason for requiring
assistance:—
(a) Ante-natal 1
1 High Presentation
1 Miscarriage
1 Transverse Extended Breed
2 Uterine Inertia
l Collapse after 3rd Stage
(b) During Labour 7
(c) After Labour 2
1 Collapse after 3rd Stage
1 Sub-involution
(d) For Infant —
(5) Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis
with result of treatment in each case None
(6) Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia
with result of treatment in each case None
(7) Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum None
(8) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum
with result of treatment in each case 1
(Cured)
(9) Number of cases of "inflammation of the eyes,"
however slight None