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Hydramnios 1
Fractured humerus 1
Talipes 1
Hypospadias 1
Melæna 1
Cord around neck 1
Bullous impetigo 1
The average duration of stay in hospital was 12.56 days, and
the cost per case was £4 7s. 8d. of which an average of £2 0s. 9d.
was paid by the patient and the remaining £2 6s. 11d. by the Council.
Compensation to Midwives.—Compensation to midwives
for the loss of cases referred from the ante-natal clinics to hospital
was paid in one instance:—
Primipara. Caesarean section. Live birth.
Payment of Midwives' Fees in Necessitous Cases.—
During the year no fees of midwives were paid by the Council
in necessitous cases.
MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY.
Three cases of Puerperal Fever and 8 cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia were notified during the year, and an endeavour was made
in each case to obtain particulars regarding the cause of the rise
of temperature.
Puerperal Fever.
Of the three cases notified as Puerperal Fever, in two cases
both mother and baby survived, and in the third case both mother
and child died.
The fatal case was the one previously mentioned under the
heading "Prematurity" in the analysis of ante-natal cases. The
patient was a primigravida—age 24 years—28 weeks pregnant—
and died in Whipps Cross Hospital.
Of the two non-fatal cases, one was a case of sapræmia following
instrumental delivery of an occipito-posterior presentation—head