View report page

160
Medical Aid.
In accordance with the Rules of the Central Midwives' Board,
a midwife must notify the Local Supervising Authority within 36
hours of every occasion on which she sends for medical aid. One
hundred and twenty-eight such notifications were received and
the following table shows the various complications for which
medical assistance was summoned :—-
During Pregnancy.
Pre-eclamptic toxaemia 5
Threatened miscarriage 1
Small pelvic measurements 1
Inevitable abortion 1
Ante-partum haemorrhage 2
Poor general condition during pregnancy 1
Abortion 1
During Labour.
Ruptured perineum 44
Footling and cord presentation 1
Prolonged labour 18
Post partum haemorrhage 3
Hysteria 2
Delayed delivery of second twin 1
Transverse lie (? twins) 1
Adherent placenta 1
Lacerated labia 1
/
During Labour.
Placenta præevia 1
Retained chorion 1
Retained placenta 1
Impacted shoulder 1
Unreduced occipito posterior 1
Rigid outlet 1
Complicated breech 1
Shoulder presentation 1
During Puerperium.
General condition of mother 4
Rise of temperature 12
Inflamed vagina 1