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Venereal Disease.
Gonorrhoea - Total cases 2
Transferred to Borough V.D. Clinic 2
Syphilis - Total cases 3
Transferred to Borough V.D. Clinic 3
These cases are delivered in Mayday Hospital in Isolation Wards,
and transferred to the Borough V.D. Clinic on discharge.
Midwives Cases.
These cases may be summarised as follows
Total number of midwives cases during 1939 (about) 227
Number of cases sent for one consultation only 99
Number of oases supervised entirely 137
Special Investigations
Special investigations were carried out on ante-natal patients attending
the Clinics and on patients in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital and Mayday
Hospital Maternity Wards.
Pathological Investigations
Blood for Wassermann 92
Blood for Kahn Reaction 72
Blood for Gonococcus Fixation Test 36
Blood for Grouping 95
Blood for Culture 3
Blood for Urea Content 87
Blood for Widals 1
Blood for Cell Count etc. 75
Catheter urine for Routine Examination 582
Urine for Aschheim-Zondek Test 54
Urine for Urea Concentration Test 330
Lochia for Culture 13
Sputum for examination 10
Pus for identification of Organism 25
Urethral smears for Gonococci, etc. 24
Cervical smears for Gonococci, etc. 28
Conjunctival smears 45
Histological sections 46
Van den Burgh 9
Throat Swabs for Organisms 56
Faeces for Occult Blood etc. 6
Blood for sugar estimation 2
Blood for Hb Estimation 186
Compatibility tests 2
Others 10
X-Ray Examinations (Mayday Hospital X-Ray Department)
215 cases were referred from Ante-natal Clinics and 472 films
wore used. Reasons for reference were:-
Breech far attitude etc. 23
For presentation, attitude etc. 78
Twins 54
Foetal death 3
" parts 17
Disproportion 41
Others 2
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