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Supervision of Midwives.
There are 10 certified midwives resident and practising in the
district (apart from those at the Maternity Home), and 13 certified
midwives resident outside Ilford, but practising in Ilford.
Their supervision has been carried out as in previous years.
The following is a summary of the notices received from mid-
wives during 1935:—
Medical Help 478
Death of Mother or Child 22
Laying out the Dead 4
Stillbirths 25
Liability to be a source of infection 36
Artificial Feeding 36
601*
*Of these, 354 were received from the Ilford Maternity Home.
Death of Mother or Child.
Twenty-one of the notices received related to infants and one to a
mother. The causes of death are embodied in Table IV, Infant Mortality,
on page 105, and Maternal Mortality on page 106.
Laying out the Dead.
Four notifications of having laid out a dead body were received. In
one case the patient died from acute necrosis of liver (two notifications
received); in another case from broncho-pneumonia and prematurity; and
one was a stillborn infant.
Stillbirths.
Twenty-five notifications were received. The causes of the stillbirths
are included in the particulars set out on page 98.
Liability to be a Source of Infection.
Thirty-six notices were received from midwives after attendance on
30 cases suffering from the following conditions:—
Abscess on face 1
Abscess on scalp 1
Acute Necrosis of liver 1
Chill 2
Caruncle of labia 1
Erysipelas and Septicaemia 1
Follicular Dermatitis 1
Influenzal Pneumonia 1
Pemphigus Neonatorum 2
Perineal boil 1
Post-abortion Sepsis 1
Puerperal Fever 2
Puerperal Fever and Scarlet Fever 2
Puerperal Pyrexia 8
Ophthalmia Neonatorum and discharging eyes 2
Scarlet Fever 3
30*
*9 of these occurred at the Ilford Maternity Home. —