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42
No. of midwives giving- notice of intention to
practice during the year 1937 32
No. of midwives removed from the local register
having left the district during 1937 9
Cancellation of certificate under Sec. 5 of the
Midwives Act, 1936, on compensation by the
Local Authority for surrendered certificate 1
No. of midwives registered by the Local Supervising
Authority as practising in the area at
the end of the year 1937 22
Notifications received.
Notices summoning medical aid 86
(i) Mothers 68
(ii) Infants 18
Notices of Artificial Feeding 2
Stillbirths 3
Deaths 1
Laying out a Dead Body 1
Source of Infection 11
Summary of Reasons for sending for Medical Aid.
Ruptured perineum 23
Delayed labour 12
Varicose veins and leg swellings 7
Inertia 3
Placenta, adherent 1
Abnormal presentation 3
Haemorrhage 5
Rise of temperature (puerperal pyrexia) 9
Other causes 5
Infants—Feeble, premature, etc. 11
Cyanosis 1
Eye discharge 4
Malformation 2
Total 86
Inspection of Midwives.
Midwives in practice are periodically inspected at
their work and at their homes. This not only applies to
the midwives on our own staff who now-work as members