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In the 1,103 "Booked" deliveries there were 28 cases of pyrexia
and no deaths without a rise of temperature. The morbidity rate
for "Booked" cases was 2.54 per cent. (Mayday Hospital 3.23 per
cent., St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 1.83 per cent.).
In the 216 "Emergency" deliveries at Mayday Hospital there
were 11 cases of pyrexia and 1 death without a rise of temperature.
The morbidity rate for Mayday Hospital "Emergency" cases was
5.56 per cent.
The Strasbourg Convention standard of pyrexia, as adopted by
the Ministry of Health, has been used, namely, "A temperature of
100.4 deg. F. or more, sustained during a period of 24 hours or
recurring during that period."
Blood Transfusion (25 cases).
The citrate method was employed, and donors were supplied
by the Blood Transfusion Service of the British Red Cross Society.
1 were "Booked" cases and 10 "Emergency" cases at Mayday
Hospital and there was one "Booked" case at St. Mary's Maternity
Hospital. One Mayday "Emergency" case and the St. Mary's
Booked" case died. In both of these haemorrhage was the indication
for the transfusion, and the patient died some time later of
sepsis.
There were also 7 blood transfusions given to patients admitted
for puerperal sepsis per se ; and all these patients recovered.
Infants.
Mayday Mayday St. Mary's
Hospital. Hospital. Mat. Hosp.
Booked. Emergency. Booked. Total. Per cent.
Number of Infants
in hospital on 1st
January, 1935 15 2 17 34 —
Total number of
live births, stillbirths
and infants
admitted with
mother (B.B.A.) 564 106 556 1,226 100
Number of Infants
in hospital on 31st
December, 1935 17 3 19 39 —
Living—alive on discharge
from
pital 529 77 531 1,137 ( + 5) 93.1
Stillborn (fresh) 12 13 5 30 2.4
Stillborn (macerated) 7 5 5 17 1.4
Died (born alive, but
died in hospital) 14 10 13 37 3.0