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of £4 10s. 0d. for compensation under Section 6 (2) of the Midwives
Act, 1918, and Section 2 (1) of the Midwives Act, 1918. and
Section 2 (1) of the Midwives and Maternity Homes Act, 1926, was
paid. The midwife was a temporary throat carrier of haemolytic
streptococci.
The following is a summary of the notices received from
midwives during 1931
Medical Help 299
Death of Mother or Child 11
Laying out the Dead 2
Stillbirths 20
Liability to be a source of infection. . 16
Artificial Feeding 8
356*
*Of these 180 were from the Ilford Maternity Home.
Death of Mother or Child.
All the notices received related to infants. The causes of death are
embodied in Table IV, Infant Mortality, on page 95.
Laying out the dead.
Two notifications of having laid out a dead body were received. In one
case the patient had died from Pneumonia, and the other case was a stillborn
infant.
Stillbirths.
Twenty notifications were received. The causes of the stillbirths are
included in the particulars set out on page 87.
Liability to be a Source of infection.
Sixteen notices were received from midwives after attendance on patients
suffering from the following conditions:—
Haemorrhage 1
Influenza 1
Inflammation of, or discharge from the eyes 3
Mammary Abscess 1
Pemphigus Neonatorum 6
Pneumonia 1
Puerperal Fever 3
16*
* 3 of these occurred at the Ilford Maternity Home.
Artificial Feeding.
Eight notifications were received from midwives that it was proposed
to substitute artificial feeding for breast feeding. The reasons given were
as follows:—