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Facilities are provided by the Local Authority for midwives
practising in the area to attend courses of instruction in the
administration of analgesics, and apparatus for administrations
are supplied for the use of midwives in domiciliary cases. Only
9 administrations in domiciliary cases were given during 1945,
mainly due to the fact that cylinders were not available and the
difficulty of transporting equipment except by car.
Maternity Hospital Provision.
Our agreement with the County Hospital, Farnborough, has
operated with complete success and with the closest operation.
The Hospital refer to us all cases of Bromley mothers
making direct application to them in order that we may select
the environmentally and medically necessitous patient Only
these types of cases are admitted. During the year 320 cases
were financially assisted.
On 1st June, 1945, the Bromley and District Hospital amalgamated
with the Bromley, Chislehurst and District Maternity
Hospital, and the immediate result was to increase maternity
bed accommodation in Bromley from 22 to 60.
I am indebted to the Medical Officer of the Maternity
Hospital for the following extract of figures of work done in
1945:—
No. of cases admitted 551
Ante-natal in-patient treatments 30
Cases delivered by—Midwives 370
Doctors 151
Cases of Puerperal pyrexia 9
Stillbirths 6
Infant deaths 5
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eleven cases were notified within the area during 1945, and
no deaths occurred. Nine cases were institutional, and two were
domiciliary.