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Croydon 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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GENERAL STATISTICS FOR 1935.
Registrar General's Returns.
Number of Live Births allocated to the Borough of Croydon 3,185
Number of Still Births allocated to the Borough of Croydon 119
Total 3,304
Number of Maternal Deaths (directly due to pregnancy) 11
Number of cases notified as Puerperal Fever 15
Number of cases notified as Puerperal Pyrexia 36
Statistics Prepared by the Obstetric Service.
Number of Expectant Mothers who attended the Borough Ante-
Natal Clinics 1,793
Number of eases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked cases 450
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency
cases 183
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital 633
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Booked cases 562
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Emergency cases —
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 562
Number of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit,
Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards,
including 22 from Mayday Hospital and none from St.
Mary's Maternity Hospital 47
Number of Maternal Deaths* in Borough of Croydon
Number of Maternal Deaths in Booked cases from Borough
Ante-Natal Clinics 4
Number of Maternal Deaths in Emergency cases at Mayday
Hospital 4
Number of Maternal Deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal
Sepsis per se 3
Total Maternal Deaths* in beds of the Obstetric Service 11
The total number of patients treated by the Obstetric Service
was :—
(a) In Mayday Hospital 720
(b) In St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 565
(c) In the Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit and
Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, excluding 22 from (a) 25
(d) At the Ante-Natal Clinics and delivered outside the above
hospitals (about) 254
(e) At the Post-Natal Clinics, excluding those included in (a),
(b), (c) and (d) 20
(/) At the Ante-Natal Clinics and undelivered on December
31st, 1934 430
Total 1,996
*Including 2 deaths not recorded by the Registrar-General as directly
due to pregnancy.