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The Bromley and District Hospital, which serves a wider
area than the Borough, has two maternity units, and patients are
admitted by the hospital, in addition to those referred by this
Authority on medical or environmental grounds.
1947 was a record year, and the following figures, for which
I am indebted to Mr. Alistair Gunn, F.R.C.S., give an indication
of the volume of work undertaken at the maternity units during
the year:—
Number of beds 60
„ of beds reserved for expectant mothers in need of
hospital treatment 12
„ of maternity cases admitted 1434
„ of ante-natal in-patients admitted 161
„ of patients delivered by: —
(a) Midwives 974
(b) Doctors 328
„ of cases in which medical aid was sought by mid-
wives in an emergency 646
„ of cases admitted after delivery 7
„ of cases of puerperal pyrexia 28
of infants who received supplementary or complementary
feeding in hospital 103
, of infants wholly breast-fed on discharge 1160
of maternal deaths 1
„ of stillbirths 35
of infants who died within 10 days of birth 12