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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Administration of Midwives Acts, 1902-1936.
Dr. G. H. Stinson carries out the duties of Inspector of Midwives and during her periodical inspections found the practising midwives were maintaining the good standard we have learnt to associate with their work in the area.
| No. of midwives practising in the area attheend of 1941 | 16. | |
| No. of confinements attended | 468 | |
| (a) as midwives | 292 | |
| (b) as maternity nurse | 176 | |
| No of cases in which medical aid was summoned during the year under Sec. 14(1) of the Midwives Act, 1918, by a midwife for domiciliary cases | 47. | |
Maternity Hospital Provision,
48 patients wore 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, has 15 beds (exclusive of 4 isolation . and labour beds), and is subsidised from public funds through the County Council.
| The No. of patients admitted to this Hospital during the year 1941 | ||
| 235. | ||
| (a) Cases delivered by midwives | 117 | |
| (b) " " " doctors | 98 | |
| (c) Expectant mothers admitted for treatment | 20 | |
| No. of cases notified as- | ||
| (a) Puerperal pyrexia | 4 | |
| (b) Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | |
| (c) Pemphigus " | - | |
| No. of Infant Deaths: | ||
| (a) Stillborn | 5 | |
| (b) Within 10 days of birth | 3 | |
| No. of maternal deaths | — | |
Puerperal Pyrexia.
V cases were notified during 1941 in the area as
against 2 in 1940. 5 patients received institutional treatment.