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MATERNITY WARD.
The admission to the Maternity Ward of the Municipal Hospital
numbered 200, compared with 221 in 1927. Of these 29 cases were
admitted for ante-natal treatment, and 171 for confinement.
Corresponding figures for 1927 were 45 cases for ante-natal treatment,
and 176 for confinement.
(1) Number of cases admitted 200
(29 of which Ante-natal)
(2) Average duration of stay 15.3 days
(3) Number of cases delivered by :—
(a) Midwives 166
(b) Doctors 5
(4) Number of cases in which medical assistance was
sought by the midwife with reason for requiring
assistance:—
(a) Ante-natal 2
(b) During Labour 9
1A.P.H.
1 Prolapse
1 Extended Breech
2 Abnormal Presentations
5 Uterine Inertia
l Collapse after 3rd Stage
(c) After Labour 14
(d) For Infant —
Torn Perineum
(5) Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis
with result of treatment in each case
1
(Cured)
(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 None
(9) Number of cases of " inflammation of the eyes,"
however slight None
(10) Number of infants not entirely breast fed while
in the Institution, with reasons why they were
not breast fed 8
(a) Weakness of mother (suffering from Phthisis) 3
(b) Premature Infant 1
(c) Partially fed—delirate mother 4