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Croydon 1938
[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,,, 2,788
Number of eases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked cases
Number of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as emergency
cases 304
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital 1,133
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Booked cases 490
Number of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital as
Emergency cases 0
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 490
Number of cases delivered by Municipal Midwives 886
Total 2,509
Number of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit,
Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards,
including 21 from Mayday Hospital and 9 from St. Mary's
Maternity Hospital 39
Number of Maternal Deaths in Borough of Croydon 3
Number of Maternal Deaths in Booked cases from Borough
Ante-natal Clinics 1
Number of Maternal Deaths in Emergency cases at Mayday
Hospital 1
Number of Maternal Deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal
Sepsis per se 0
Total Maternal Deaths in beds of the Obstetric Service 2
The total number of patients treated by the Obstetric Service
was:—
(a) In Mayday Hospital 1,414
(b) In St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 560
(c) In the Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit and
Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, excluding 21 from (a)
and 9 from (b) 9
(d) At the Ante-natal Clinics and delivered outside the above
Hospitals (about) (including Municipal Midwives' cases) 986
(e) At the Post-natal Clinics, excluding those included in (a),
(b), (c), and (d) 270
(f) At the Ante-natal Clinics and undelivered on December 31st,
1938 583
Total 3,822