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28a
RETURN RELATING TO MATERNITY
HOSPITAL (WARD) SUBSIDISED BY THE
COUNCIL DURING THE YEAR 1944.
1. Name and address of Institution—East Ham Memorial Hospital,
Shrewsbury Road, E.7.
la. Whether Municipal or Voluntary—Voluntary.
2. Number of Maternity beds in the Institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds) at 31st December, 1944—16.
2a. Number of beds, if any, included under item 2, which have been
reserved for expectant mothers in need of hospital treatmentNil.*
3. Number of maternity cases admitted during the year—377.Ø
3a. Number of women treated during the year in the ante-natal beds
shown against item 2a. (These women should be included also
against item 3)—50*
3b. †Average duration of stay of expectant mothers shown against
3a.—8.0 days.
4. †Average duration of stay of cases in the lying-in wards—14.5
days.
5. ‡Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives 302
(b) Doctors 25
327.
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—25.
7. Number of cases admitted after delivery—1
8. Number of cases notified as—-
(а) §Puerperal fever—Nil.
(б) ||Puerperal pyrexia—Nil.
9. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—-Nil.
10(a) Number of infants, who have at any time received a supplementary
or complementary feed while in the Institution—12.
(b) Number of infants wholly breastfed on leaving the Institution—
308.
11. Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum—Nil.
12. Number of maternal deaths—Nil.
13(a) No. of Stillbirths—-5
13(b) Cause in each case and results of post-mortem examination
(if obtainable).
1. Eclampsia of mother.
2. Macerated premature infant—emergency from district.
3. Prolapsed cord.
4. 2nd Twin—prolapsed cord.
5. Cord round neck 4 times—died from asphyxia before
delivery.
14(a) Number of infant deaths within 10 days of birth—8.
(b) Cause of death in each case and results of post-mortem examination
(if obtainable).
1. Prematurity 28 weeks due to pregnancy toxaemia.
2. Spina bifida.
3. Intercranial haemorrhage.
4. Prematurity 30 weeks.
5. Numerous deformities.
6. Prematurity due to pregnancy toxaemia.
7. 2nd twin died prematurely.
8. Prematurity 30 weeks.
*Although no beds were reserved for expectant mothers, 50 such cases received
hospital treatment in the 16 maternity beds.
†Based on the actual number of days each patient stayed.
‡Students cases should be included under (a) unless they were delivered by
a doctor.
§In London only.
||i.e., rise of temperature to 100.4° F. for 24 hours, or its recurrence within
that period.
ØThis represents number of admissions not number of individual cases.