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Table of Obstetric Cases Investigated by X-Ray at Mayday
Hospital 1931.
Number of examinations made 38
Number of those cases sent from the Ante Natal
Clinics 27
The findings in those doubtful cases were as follows:—
Vertex presentations 17
Footling 4
Breech: Legs extended 9
Contracted Pelvis 1
Large Head 1
Transverse Lie 2
Twin Pregnancy 4
In the twin pregnancies the positions were as follows:—
Both presenting by the vertex 2
Both presenting by the breech 1
First presenting as a breech,
second doubtful 1
RETURN OF OBSTETRIC AND GYNAECOLOGICAL
CASES 1931.
Mayday Hospital.
The Lying-in accommodation at Mayday Hospital comprised
twenty-two beds. During the year the unit was considerably improved
in the way of equipment, instruments, cots for infants and
other ways, but is still far from satisfactory. Plans for a new
Maternity building of forty beds have been approved by the Council
and it is proposed that the present building should become the
gynaecological wards.
With the extension of the Ante Natal work and following the
opening of Post Natal and Gynaecological Clinics at Lodge Road, it
was apparent that additional accommodation for cases from those
centres in need of hospital treatment should be found. Such
accommodation was found in Mayday Hospital where a ward with
a capacity of thirty-five beds was provided.
The fifty-seven beds dealt with a large number of cases which
Lad passed through one or other of the Municipal clinics, but too
many admissions were cases sent in urgently, in many instances
having had no Ante Natal care, and too often critically ill. As the
figures which fellow show, the abnormal admissions to the hospital
reach a very high figure.