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To deliver a patient 1
To perform Caesarian section operations 7
For consultation re threatened eclampsia 2
For consultation in a case of fractured pelvis 1
For consultation re bacillus coli infection 2
For consultation re accidental haemorrhage 1
The reasons for the seven Caesarian section operations were
as follows:—
Obstructed labour 1
Disproportionate measurements 3
Contracted pelvis 2
Concealed accidental hemorrhage 1
The infant mortality rate of children born in the Maternity
Home was 19-3 per 1,000 births, as compared with 37 -0 for those
born in their own homes. The figure of 37 -0 has been arrived at
after deduction of all deaths of infants from the Maternity Home
and the Village Homes, Barkingside, and is calculated on the total
births in the district excluding those in the Maternity Home.
The following table compares the infant mortality rate in the
Maternity Home and in the district generally for the past 10
years:—
Maternity Home.
District generally.
1930
19.3
37 .0
1929
15.0
61.2
1928
14.6
54.7
1927
8.9
52.0
1926
10.4
56.1
1925
23.9
58.1
1924
16.0
45.7
1923
15.3
40.4
1922
25.6
56.3
1921
20.5
52.4
No maternal death occured at the Maternity Home.
The maternal mortality rate for the Home for the ten years
from 1921.1930 is .92 as compared with the maternal mortality
rate in the district generally of 3.0.