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92
Visits have been paid as required to one registered Nursing
Home in the district.
Under the rules issued by the Central Midwives' Board, a
midwife must notify the Local Supervising Authority within 36
hours if she has summoned medical aid during pregnancy, in a
confinement, or within 10 days afterwards.
During the year help was obtained in 179 cases as follows:—
Mother—
Ruptured perineum 38
Prolonged labour 29
Ante-partum hæmorrhage 5
Post-partum hæmorrhage 1
Retained placenta 16
Rise of temperature 19
Malpresentations 7
Extended breech 2
Other causes 40
157
Child-
Prematurity and dangerous feebleness 8
Unsatisfactory condition of infant 7
Discharging eyes 1
Skin eruptions 2
Other causes 4
22
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Seven cases of Puerperal Fever and ten cases of Puerpera
Pyrexia were notified during the year under the Regulations o
1926 and 1928.
The Puerperal Fever case rate was 3.6 per 1,000 births and
the Puerperal Pyrexia case rate 5.2 per 1,000 births.
The death rate for Puerperal Fever was 1.00 per 1,000 births
(live and still).