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Result III.— Health seriously impaired as a result of recent
confinement (i.e., symptoms or disability present due to
trauma, infection, etc., or damage to vital organs, as in
chronic nephritis).
Mayday St. Mary's
Hospital. Hospital. Elsewhere. Totals.
Result 1 183 286 43 512
Result II 25 38 6 69
Result III 7 13 4 24
Totals, treated to conclusion
215 337 53 605
OBSTETRIC CONSULTATIONS.
As Consulting Obstetrician to the Borough, the Assistant
Medical Officer of Health for Obstetrics was called in by medical
practitioners to see 20 patients who could not afford to pay a
private consultant.
The cases were as follows:- Placenta Praevia, Threatened
Abortion, Puerperal Fever, Pre-eclampsia, Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyelitis, Pyelitis of Pregnancy, Puerperal Pyelitis,
Puerperal Pyelitis, Femoral Thrombo-phlebitis, Prolonged
Labour due to Posterior Position, Prolonged Labour due to Contracted
Pelvis, Foetal Death, Prolonged Labour due to Posterior
Position, Placenta Previa, Suspected Disproportion, Retained
Placenta and Haemorrhage, Chronic Nephritis and Pre-eclampsia,
Threatened Abortion, Threatened Abortion.
In addition, he was asked by the Medical Superintendent of
Mayday Hospital to give an opinion on the obstetric and gynaecological
aspects of 17 cases in the general, medical and surgical
wards of the Hospital.
St. Mary's Maternity Hospital.
This institution has 32 beds. Thirty of the beds are reserved
for cases sent by the Local Authority, for which a grant of
£2,350 was made.
I am indebted to Dr. G. Genge, the physician in charge, for
the following particulars:—
No. of cases admitted during 1933 624
Average duration of stay 14 days.
No. of cases delivered by (a) Midwives 564
(b) Doctors 40 (6.6%)