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MIDWIFERY SERVICE
The Corporation employ directly a Superintendent and 18 domiciliary
midwives. 10 midwives are recognised by the Central Midwives'
Board to have pupils for the second three months of their
Part II C.M.B. training.
The work of the municipal midwives was as follows:-
1.-The number of maternity deliveries by Municipal Midwives
on the district in the year 1954 1,265
2.-The number of spontaneous deliveries 1,251
3.-The number of forceps deliveries 14
4.-The number of live births 1,256
5.-The number of stillbirths 9
6.-The number of neo-natal deaths 4
7.-The number of premature infants treated in their own
homes, and their weights and ultimate result 11
(1) 38 weeks - 5 lbs. Discharge weight 5 lbs.4 ozs.
(2) 37 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs.4 ozs.
(3) 36 weeks - 4 lbs. 12 ozs 5 lbs.3 ozs.
(4) 35 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs.
(5) 37 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs.4 ozs.
(6) 34 weeks - 5 1 bs 5 lbs.4 ozs.
(7) 36 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs.8 ozs.
(8) 34 weeks - 3 lbs Still born
(9) 36 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs. 8 ozs.
(10) 36 weeks - 4 lbs. 12 ozs 4 lbs.4 ozs.
(11). 36 weeks - 5 lbs 5 lbs.
8.-The number who received Gas and Air Analgesia 1,178
9.-The number of cases of P.P.H 31
(13 remained at home,
18 transferred Mayday)
10.-The number of cases of manual removal of the placenta None
11.-The number who received blood transfusion 6
12.-The number of cases to which the Emergency Obstetric
Service was called 6
13.-The number of patients sent into Mayday Hospital:
During the A.N. period 240
During and after delivery 28
14.-The number of cases of toxaemia of pregnancy treated
at home 1
15.-The number of cases of prolonged labour (over 24 hours) 33
16.-The number of breech deliveries:
In primipara 2
In multipara 3
17.-The number of twins delivered in their own homes and the
weights of the babies 1 set
4 1 bs.
4 lbs.12 ozs.
18.-The number of triplets delivered in their own homes and
the weights of the babies 1 set
(all died)
14 ozs.
16 ozs.
16 ozs.
19.-The number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia:
Genital
Extra-Genital 16 Total: 16
20.-The number of congenital malformations 9