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admitted to the Council's Maternity Home or other Hospitals for confinement.
33 were admitted to the Maternity Home, 8 to Oldchurch Hospital,
Romford, 2 to King George Hospital, Ilford, 2 to Queen Mary's Hospital,
Stratford, and 1 to Queen Charlottes Hospital.
In addition three patients were admitted to the Maternity Home following
confinement for various reasons. Five patients who had engaged a
Council midwife were admitted to the Council's Maternity Home for antenatal
treatment and subsequently confined at their own homes, evacuated
or admitted to Oldchurch Hospital.
A Doctor was called in at the time of the confinement or subsequently
to 156 of the 447 cases in which a midwife had been engaged.
Ten cases were notified as suffering from Puerperal Pyrexia, 5 of these
cases and 2 other patients were removed to the Isolation Hospital. 4 of
the cases had engaged their own Doctor to attend them.
One mother who had engaged her own Doctor to attend her died 8J
hours after delivery from cardiac failure and post partum haemorrhage.
Four babies were notified as suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The condition of the eyes cleared satisfactorily. In one instance the midwife
was engaged as a maternity nurse.
Of the infants born, there were 15 stillbirths. In three instances the
midwife was engaged as a maternity nurse only.
Twenty-four infants died. In ten instances the midwife was engaged
as a maternity nurse only.
Home Helps.—At the end of 1943 there were 13 Home Helps available
for full time employment at the homes of expectant and nursing mothers
and where there were children under 5 years of age.
During the year 200 cases were attended.
Salvation Army Midwifery Service.—132 cases were attended by the
Salvation Army midwives during the year; 123 as a midwife and 9 as a
maternity nurse.
Ante-Natal Clinics.
Maternity Mayesbrook
Home Clinic
First attendances .. .. .. 988 209
Subsequent attendances .. .. 7,302 1,176
Number of expectant mothers on the
rolls on 31st December, 1943 .. 382 91
All patients booked for admission to the Maternity Home are medically
examined at the Ante-Natal Clinics.
During the year, 596 cases other than those booked for admission to the
Maternity Home were examined at the Clinics. There were 3,118 attendances
by such cases.
The Consulting Obstetrician made weekly visits to the Ante-Natal
Clinic during 1943
During the year 52 ordinary visits were made, 397 patients referred
from the Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics, and 55 patients referred by
private Doctors, were examined. A total of 956 examinations were made.
X-Ray Examination of Ante-Natal Patients.
66 examinations were made at King George Hospital in 1943.
Pcst-Natal Clinic.
The following attendances were recorded:—
First attendances .. .. .. .. .. 446
Subsequent attendances .. .. .. .. 439
Number on roll on 31st December, 1943 .. 44
Nutrition.—In March, 1943, the Ministry of Health conducted surveys
of expectant and nursing mothers at the Clinics at the Maternity Home.
The results of the inspection are as follows:—
"58 women only presented themselves for examination—38 ante-natal;
20 post-natal. Of the former it was the 1st pregnancy in 29; 2nd in 7;
1 woman previously had a miscarriage and a stillborn child; 1 woman had
had 2 previous children.