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Croydon 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Statistics Prepared by the Obstetric Service.
Number of Expectant Mothers who attended the Borough Antenatal
Clinics 2,427
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked cases 855
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency
279
cases
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital 1,134
Number of oases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Booked cases 534
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Emergency cases 2
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 536
Number of cases delivered by Municipal Midwives 180
Number of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit,
Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards,
including 30 from Mayday Hospital and 22 from St. Mary's
Maternity Hospital 62
Number of Maternal Deaths in Borough of Croydon 13
Number of Maternal Deaths in Booked cases from Borough
Ante-natal Clinics 6
Number of Maternal Deaths in Emergencies cases at Mayday
Hospital 4
Number of Maternal Deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal
Sepsis per se 1
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 1,134
(b) In St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 574
(c) In the Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit and
Mayday Hospital Isolation Wands, excluding 30 from (a)
and 22 from (b) 10
(d) At the Ante-natal Clinics and delivered outside the above
Hospitals (about) (including Municipal Midwives' cases) 350
(e) At the Post-natal Clinics, excluding those included in (a),
(b), (c), and (d 254
(f) At the Ante-natal Clinics and undelivered on December 31st,
1937 686
Total 3,008