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Notifications.—The number of notifications received from
midwives, in accordance with the Rules of the Central Midwives'
Board, was as follows :—
Notifications of :—
Sending for medical assistance :
On account of a complication of pregnancy 30
On account of a complication during labour 92
On account of a complication during the
puerperium 6
On account of the health of the child 23
Still-birth 11
Death—Infant 2
Laying out of a Dead Body 2
Artificial Feeding of Infant 4
Liability of Midwife to be a source of Infection 4
Total 174
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Among the 23 notifications of
sending for medical assistance on account of the health of the
child were included ten on account of inflammation of, or discharge
from, the eyes. In five of these cases the medical practitioner
called in by the midwife notified the case as ophthalmia neonatorum.
Visits to Midwives. The Assistant Medical Officer who is
the Inspector of Midwives makes routine visits to the midwives
at intervals of six months. During the year the visits were as
follows :—
Routine Visits of Inspection 40
Special Visits of Enquiry 5
The visits of enquiry in connection with special cases were
as follows :—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 3
Pemphigus Neonatorum 1