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63
Lactation poor or insufficient 17
Mastitis 1
Mother refused to breast feed infant 3
Mother's request 1
Puerperal pyrexia—doctor's advice 1
One patient who had engaged a District Midwife to attend her as a midwife,
died during the year. The patient, a primipara, delivered at her own
home was transferred to the Council's Maternity Home 16 hours after her
confinement and died 13g hours later due to oedema of the lungs, post partum
eclampsia and toxaemia of pregnancy.
Salvation Army Midwifery Service.—190 cases were attended by the
Salvation Army Midwives during the year, 161 as a midwife and 29 as a
maternity nurse.
A Doctor was called in to 60 of the 161 cases in which a midwife had
been engaged for the following reasons :—
Ante-Natal.
Ante Partum Haemorrhage 1
Hypertension and Albuminuria 3
Severe pain in left iliac fossa 1
Total 5
During Labour.
Breech Delivery 1
Delayed second stage ,.. 1
Extended breech 1
Incomplete Abortion 1
Maternal distress 2
Miscarriage—complete 1
Prolapsed cord 1
Prolonged first stage 1
Total 9
After Labour.
Mastitis 1
Laceration of Perineum 28
Post Partum haemorrhage 3
Prolapse—for insertion of pessary 1
Puerperal insanity 1
Pyrexia 2
Total 36
Infant.
Atelectasis 1
Blue Asphyxia 1
Cyanosis 1
Septic finger 1
Sticky eye 4
Stillbirth 1
Vomiting and loss of weight 1
Total 10
One patient was notified as suffering from puerperal pyrexia, stated to be
due to chronic otitis media, and was removed to the Council's Isolation
Hospital.
Of the infants born there were two stillbirths from the following causes :—
Congenital abnormality 1
Delayed labour 1