Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Number of Expectant Mothers who attended the Borough Ante-natal Clinics | 2,276 |
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked cases | 684 |
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency cases | 190 |
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital | 874 |
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as Booked cases | 573 |
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as Emergency cases | 2 |
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital ... | 575 |
Number of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit, Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, including 29 from Mayday Hospital and 5 from St. Mary's Maternity Hospital | 51 |
Number of Maternal Deaths* in Borough of Croydon | 13 |
Number of Maternal Deaths in Booked cases from Borough Ante-natal Clinics | 2 |
Number of Maternal Deaths† in Emergency cases at Mayday Hospital | 10 |
Number of Maternal Deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal Sepsis per se | 3 |
Total Maternal Deaths† in beds of the Obstetric Service | 10 |
The total number of patients treated by the Obstetric Service was:—
(a) In Mayday Hospital | 959 |
(b) In St. Mary's Maternity Hospital | 582 |
(c) in the Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, excluding 30 from (a) and 4 from (b) | |
(d) At the Ante-natal Clinics and delivered outside the above Hospitals (about) | 283 |
(e) At the Post-natal Clinics, excluding those included in (a), (b), (c), and (d), and including 100 delivered in 1936 | 140 |
734 | |
Total | 2,313 |