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No. of midwives practising in the area at
end of 1940 21
No. of confinements attended 668
(a) as midwives 407
(b) as maternity nurse 261
No. of cases in which medical aid was
summoned during the year under Sec.
14 (i) Midwives Act, 1918, by a midwife
for domiciliary cases 47
Maternity Hospital Provision.
Forty-one maternity cases requiring hospital treatment
were admitted to the County Hospital, Farnborough,
under the Council's Scheme of assisted maternity
hospital provision.
The Bromley, Chislehurst and District Maternity
Hospital, a voluntary hospital, subsidised from public
funds through the County Council, had their accommodation
of 15 beds in full use during 1940:
No. of patients admitted 329
(a) Cases delivered by midwives 202
(b) Cases delivered by doctors 105
(c) Expectant mothers admitted
for treatment 22
No. of cases notified as:
(a) Puerperal pyrexia 1
(b) Ophthalmia neonatorum 2
No. of infant deaths:
(a) Stillborn 8
(b) Within 10 days of birth 6
No. of maternal deaths 0
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Only two cases were notified during 1940 as against
twenty-two in 1939. Both received institutional treatment,
one made a satisfactory recovery, but the other
case died on the seventh day after severe hiemorrhage.
The patient was forty-one years of age, ante-natal care
had been constant, .and obstetric facilities at
delivery
satisfactory; the birth was stillborn,