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Infants Weaned. Total 9.
Owing to condition of mother's breasts 5
Owing to general health of mother 4
Patients transferred to other Hospitals:—
To Chiswick and Ealing Isolation Hospital.
Mother and infant with measles 1
To Hendon Isolation Hospital.
Mother with measles and infant who subsequently
developed measles 1
To King Edward Memorial Hospital.
Infant with pyloric stenosis transferred for operative
treatment. Mother went with child.
Maternal Death.
There was one death. This patient was admitted as an urgent
case with severe concealed ante-partum haemorrhage. Artificial
rupture of membranes failed to start uterine contractions. Traction
of the child's head also failed to incite contractions. The patient
died undelivered within six hours of admission. The Consulting
Obstetrician was present throughout.
Consulting Obstetrician.—Dr. J. W. Rait Bell, the
Consulting Obstetrician, was called to the Hospital on seventeen
occasions during the period under review.
Training of Pupils.—Up to the 31st March, 1938, 6 pupils
completed their course of training and entered for the examination
of the Central Midwives Board. Four of these pupils were
successful.