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THE OBSTETRIC SERVICE
ThE Obstetric Service has.been described in my Report for 1938. The
following ate the statistics for 1939.
Since, August, 19.39 there has been a whole time resident for the
Obstetric and Gynaecological Departments in Mayday Hospital. There is
also a whole time resident in St. Mary's Hospital.
Taking the Registrar General's figures for maternal mortality
(deaths directly due to pregnancy) the rate for England and Wales for
1939 is 2.93 per 1,000 births. In Croydon the rate was 1,16. In Booked
cases treated by the Obstetric Service the rate for 1939 was 0.7 per 1,000
Hospital deliveries; nil per 1,000 home deliveries and 0,4 per 1,000
over all deliveries.
Of the cases treated to a conclusion at the Post Natal Clinic during
1939, 97.4 per cent were classified as "Health Unimpaired. This
signifies that anatomically and functionally their condition was the same
as before their pregnancies. The corresponding figure for 1938 was 87,5%.
The number of cases delivered of viable babies in Mayday Hospital
with a nominal 48 beds, was 871. The number delivered at St. Mary's
Maternity Hospital, with 30 beds, was 451.
GENERAL STATISTICS, 1939.
No, of live births allocated to the Borough of Croydon 3404
" " still 407
No of maternal deaths (directly due to pregnancy) 4
No. of cases notified as Puerperal Pyrexia 39
No of Expectant Mothers who attended the Borough
Ante Natal Clinics 3334
No, of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as
Booked cases 822
No. of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as
emergency cases 214
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hosp. 1036
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity
Hospital as booked cases 451
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
as Emergency cases
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity
Hospital 451.
No. of cases delivered by Municipal Midwives 994
TOTAL 2481
No. of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection
Unit, Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital
Isolation Wards, including 13 from Mayday Hosp.
and 8 from St. Mary's Maternity Hospital. 41
No. of Maternal deaths in Booked cases from Borough
Ante Natal Clinics 1
No, of Maternal deaths in Emergency cases at
Mayday Hospital 2
No, of maternal deaths in cases admitted as
Puerperal Sepsis per se 2
Total Maternal deaths in bods of the Obstetric
Service 5
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