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In addition 5 patients were admitted to the Maternity Home following
confinement for various reasons.
A Doctor was called in at the time of the confinement or subsequently
to 121 of tho 500 cases in which a midwife had been engaged.
Three cases were notified as suffering from Puerperal Pyrexia, 2 of these
cases and 1 other patient was removed to the Isolation Hospital. Two of
the cases had engaged their own Doctor to attend them.
One baby was notified as suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The condition of the eyes cleared satisfactorily. The midwife was engaged
as a midwife.
Of the infants born, there were 9 stillbirths. In 2 instances the midwife
was engaged as a maternity nurse only.
Twenty infants died. In 6 instances the midwife was engaged as a
maternity nurse only.
Two patients who had engaged the District Midwives (1 as a Maternity
Nurse) died in the Maternity Home following their confinement.
(1) Admitted owing to Obstructed Labour and failed forceps delivery.
Delivered of a stillborn infant the following morning by forceps and died
2 days later from Obstetric shock due to forceps delivery for obstructed
labour (full term child in rigor mortis).
(2) Admitted owing to Vaginal placenta praevia, delivered the following
day and died 1½ hours later due to Cardiac failure due to Ante-partum
Haemorrhage due to placenta praevia.
Home Helps.—At the end of 1944 there were 6 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 189 cases were attended.
Salvation Army Midwifery Service.—121 cases were attended by the
Salvation Army midwives during the year; 115 as a midwife and 6 as a
maternity nurse.
Ante-Natal Clinics.
Maternity Mayesbrook
Home Clinic
First attendances 809 212
Subsequent attendances 6,792 1,482
Number of expectant mothers on the
rolls on 31st December, 1944 309 88
All patients booked for admission to the Maternity Home are medically
examined at the Ante-Natal Clinics.
During the year, 383 cases other than those booked for admission to the
Maternity Home were examined at the Clinics. There were 1,834 attendances
by such cases.
The Consulting Obstetrician made weekly visits to the Ante-Natal
Clinic during 1944.
During the year 52 ordinary visits were made, 410 patients referred
from the Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics, and 58 patients referred by
private Doctors, were examined. A total of 1,150 examinations were made.
X-Ray Examination of Ante-Natal Patients.
87 examinations were made at King George Hospital in 1944.
Post-Natal Clinic.
The following attendances were recorded:—
First attendances 523
Subsequent attendances 395
Number on roll on 31st December, 1944 60