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Result 11.—Health slightly impaired as a result of recent confinement
(i.e., no symptoms or disability, but anatomical
damage likely to lead to disability in the future, particularly
if increased by further pregnancies. This group
includes cases impaired by previous confinements and
further impaired by the recent confinement so as to make
the total impairment, due to all previous confinements,
equal to that described in Result III). (11%).

Maternal Mortality (Obstetric Service).
These cases fall into three categories. The first includes all
"Booked'' cases (i.e., those who had attended the Ante-Natal Clinic
on two occasions, whether they were delivered in the Council's beds
or not). The second consists of those admitted to Hospital as
" Emergency " cases (i.e., they had not attended the Ante-Natal
Clinics on more than one occasion, if at all). The third category
is made up of cases admitted after delivery as Puerperal Sepsis
per se and treated at Mayday Hospital or in the Borough Hospital
Puerperal Infection Unit. This last group is dealt with in the
Report of the Puerperal Isolation Wards (see below).
Eleven deaths occurred of mothers dealt with by the service,
one of these, however, a case of sepsis, only came under the service
after the onset of sepsis. 4 deaths occurred in " Emergency " cases,
and 6 in Booked " cases. The maternal mortality of " Booked
cases, i.e., cases under the continued supervision of the service was
4.3 per 1,000.
The Registrar-General's figures for deaths directly due to
pregnancy were as follows:—
Total Maternal Deaths allocated to Borough of Croydon 12
Maternal Mortality 3.56 per 1,000 birth.