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The number of cases delivered of viable babies in Mayday
Hospital, with a nominal 68 beds, was 1,098. The number
delivered at St. Mary's Maternity Hospital, with 30 beds, was
490. The number of cases delivered by the Domiciliary Branch
of the Service (Municipal Midwives) was 991. Including 32 cases
admitted after delivery, the total number of deliveries dealt with
by the Obstretric Service was 2,579. The total number of infants
born was 2,604.
In April, 1943, Monteagle Nursing Home was equipped and
opened as an annexe to Mayday and St. Mary's Hospitals,
providing 20 additional lying-in beds and 2 nurseries. These
beds are included in the Mayday Hospital beds named above.
368 mothers and babies were transferred from Mayday Hospital,
and 27 mothers and babies from St. Mary's Hospital in the
first half of 1944 to finish their nursing after about the 7th day.
This has made possible the considerable increase in the number
of deliveries in Mayday Hospital, and, to a lesser extent, in St.
Mary's Hospital, in 1944, as compared with previous years. The
Home was closed for the last half of 1944, owing to enemy action.
General Statistics, 1944.
No. of live births allocated to the Borough of Croydon 3,583
,, still ,, ,, ,, ,, 97
No. of maternal deaths (directly due to pregnancy)
No. of cases of notified Puerperal Pyrexia 48
No. of expectant mothers who attended the Borough Ante-
Natal Clinics 3,783
No. of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked
cases (exclusive of abortions) 1,030
No. of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency
cases (exclusive of abortions) 68
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital 1,098
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
as Booked cases 490
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
as Emergency cases —
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 490
No. of cases delivered by Municipal midwives 991
Total 2,579