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Towards the end of the year, two other innovations were made
at Mayday Hospital. The length of stay of normal cases was
increased by one day so that normal cases now go home on the 14th
day. For some years all mothers have received postural treatment
to encourage normal involution of the uterus. The assistance of
the Massage Department of Mayday Hospital has now been
obtained to give lying-in cases exercises and treatment to improve
the abdominal and pelvic musculature.
During the first four months of 1933 when the Obstetric
Officer's post was filled by a locum tenens, the Post-Natal Clinic
was very poorly attended. After that, the attendance gradually
rose, and at the end of the year about two-thirds of mothers attended
the post-natal clinic six weeks after their confinements.
General Statistics for 1933.
Number of Births Registered in the Borough of Croydon 3,391
Number of Stillbirths registered in the Borough of Croydon 99
Total 3,490
Number of Expectant Mothers who attended the Borough Ante-Natal
Clinics 1,045
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked Cases 368
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency Cases 144
Total cases delivered at Mayday Hospital 512
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as booked
Cases 598
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Emergency Cases —
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 598
Number of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit, Borough
Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, including four
from Mayday Hospital and two from St. Mary's Maternity
Hospital 28
Number of Maternal Deaths in Borough of Croydon 13
Number of Maternal Deaths in Booked Cases from Borough AnteNatal
Clinics 2
Number of Maternal Deaths in Emergency Cases Mayday Hospital 5
Number of Maternal Deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal Sepsis
per se 6