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Eight visits were made by the Inspecting Medical Officer
during 1926 to the Maternity Charity and District Nurses' Home
and its branches, two to the Sir Henry Tate Nurses' Home, and 37
to the midwives practising independently.
Fourteen midwives were interviewed by the Inspector of Midwives
at the White House in connection with particular cases.
One midwife practising in East Ham was reported by the
Essex County Council to the Central Board of Midwives for certain
remissnesses in her practice, and a report was called for
regarding her work in East Ham. This midwife was cautioned
by the Board.
Otherwise the conditions found were on the whole satisfactory.
By the rules of the Central Midwives Board, midwives must
send for medical aid in certain specifically named conditions. In
1926 medical help was sent for in 1G5 cases, as follows:—
For the Mothers—
Ruptured perineum 35
Prolonged labour 41
Retained placenta 10
Ante-partum haemorrhage 3
Post-partum haemorrhage 3
Rise of temperature 7
Inflamed breasts 1
Malpresentations 7
Vomiting of pregnancy 3
Miscarriage 2
Other causes 13
For the Infants—
Dangerous feebleness 23
Deformities 1
Discharging eyes 7
Baby found dead on arrival of midwife 4
Other causes 5
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
New regulations for the control of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia came into force in October, 1926. Very definite
requirements are laid down as to the notification of cases of