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Details of Distribution of Free Dried Milk, Cod Liver Oil, etc.
Distributed by the Maternity and Child Welfare Department apart from
any scheme of the Ministry of Food.
Trufood 18 tins.
Ostermilk 105 „
Cow and Gate 286 packets.
Cod Liver Oil and Malt 20 cartons.
Halycalcyne 6 packets.
Glucose 50 „
Convalescent Cases.
One child was sent away under the contract with the Invalid
Children's Aid Association.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
One hundred and ninety-five children were referred for operation during
1947, and 49 children had operative treatment.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Twenty-four cases were notified during the year and of these 20 occurred
in the North Middlesex County Hospital, 9 of which were Edmonton cases.
Of 4 cases which occurred in the district one was removed to hospital.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Seventy-seven cases were notified during the year and of this number 74
occurred in the North Middlesex County Hospital of which 19 were Edmonton
cases. Two cases occurred in the district and 1 was removed to the Isolation
Hospital. It must be understood that the more serious cases of midwifery are
referred to the Hospital, and therefore complications are more likely to occur.
MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
Analysis of work.
Actual confinements attended by mid-
wives 981
Attended by midwives, but women
admitted to hospital before or
during confinement 218
Left district before confinement or
mothers evacuated through L.C.C.
scheme, etc. 40
(Of this number 887 as
midwives and 94 as
Maternity Nurses.)
(Sixty of these women
were discharged from
Hospital after the fourth
day and attended by the
Council's Midwives for the
nursing period.)
(Attention and supervision
given by Municipal
midwives during AnteNatal
period.)
In addition to the actual 981 confinements attended, a total of 19,691
visits were paid by midwives as under :—
Ante-Natal visits to homes 2,283
Post-Natal Visits 14,871
Additional evening visits 96
Visits after fourteenth day 58
False alarms 630
Special Visits 989
Second Nurse for Gas and Air Analgesia 4
Miscellaneous 758
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