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40
During the year 53 ordinary visits were made, 357 patients referred
from the Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics, and 89 patients referred by
private Doctors, were examined.
X-Ray Examination of Ante-Natal Patients.
50 examinations were made at King George Hospital in 1940.
Post-Natal Clinic.
The following attendances were recorded:—
First attendances 276
Subsequent attendances 203
Number on roll on 31st December, 1940 28
Maternal Mortality.
The total number of deaths due to childbirth during the year was 6,
which gives a maternal mortality rate i.e., number of deaths per 1,000 live
births of 3.12 (or 3.00 including stillbirths).
The causes of death were as follows:—
Puerperal Fever:—
Confined at own home and died in Council's Isolation
Hospital; Puerperal Septicaemia.
Died im King George Hospital, Ilford; Toxaemia due to
peritonitis secondary to infected uterus with retained
products following a miscarriage.
Confined at and died in Council's Maternity Home;
Cardiac failure due to pulmonary embolus due to
toxaemia of pregnancy after induction with retained
placenta.
Other causes:—
Confined at and died in own home; Cardiac failure;
pulmonary embolism ; parturition.
Died at King George Hospital; Acute pulmonary oedema ;
operation salpingectomy; ruptured ectopic gestation.
Confined at own home and died in Oldchurch County
Hospital, Romford ; Bronchial Pneumonia ; eclampsia
post-partum; chronic bronchial asthma and cardiac
failure.
Cases notified as puerperal pyrexia are investigated by the Sanitary
Inspectors and Health Visitors.
MATERNITY HOME.
During 1940, 551 women were admitted into the Home (63 direct to the
Emergency Block and 488 to the Ward Blocks).
217 cases could not be admitted during the year owing to the difficulty
in obtaining sufficient nursing staff.
At the end of the year 228 cases h,ad applied for future admission to
the home.
The average number of patients in tihe home per day during 1940 was
24.8 and the average length of stay of patients was 16.3 days
Emergency Block.
105 cases were treated, 63 being admitted direct to this block and 42
being transferred from the Ward Blocks.
47 of these 63 cases had not been bookfed for admission to the Maternity
Home.
4 of the 63 patients were admitted direct to the Emergency Block for
ante-natal treatment and were subsequently re-admitted to the Ward Blocks
for confinement.