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Cracked, flat, depressed, inverted or sore nipples 28
Domestic reasons 2
History of artificial pneumothorax 1
History of breast abscess 3
History of mastitis 3
History of tuberculosis 7
Inability to feed owing to operation on breasts 1
Infant's general condition 1
Infant's feeding difficulties 2
Infant's digestive disorder 1
Lactation failed, poor or insufficient 68
Maternal death 3
Meningocele 1
Mitral stenosis of mother 2
Mother's general condition 8
Mother's condition—cardiac complication 2
Mother's condition—post-partum eclampsia 2
Mother's condition—post-operative condition 1
Mother's condition—toxaemia 1
Mother's request 9
No co-operation from mother 2
Poor maternal condition following Caesarian section 1
Pyrexia following Caesarian section 1
Prematurity 4
Thickening of breast 2
Spina bifida 2
58 infants (including four sets of twins) born to patients in the Ward
Blocks were retained in the Home for varying periods, an average of 15.6
days each, following discharge of their mothers, either due to prematurity
or feeding difficulties. 28 of these infants weighed lbs. or less at birth.
There were 18 deaths of infants under one year of age born in the Ward
Blocks as follows:-
Atelectasis, aged 12 hours.
Atelectasis, aged 34 hours.
Atelectasis, cerebral haemorrhage, Mongolism, aged 20 days.
Atelectasis due to cerebral haemorrhage due to tentorial tear,
associated with prematurity, aged 5 hours.
Atelectasis, extreme prematurity, maternal intra-partum haemorrhage,
aged 11 hours.
*Bronchitis, Mongolism, aged 5 months.
* Broncho-pneumonia, aged 3 months.
*Broncho-pneumonia, aged 7 months.
Broncho-pneumonia due to atelectasis associated with prematurity,
aged 4 days.
* Broncho-pneumonia, osteogenesis imperfecta, aged 1 month.
Congenital defects, myelocele, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, aged
3 weeks.
Erythroblastosis foetalis, aged 16 hours.
Extreme prematurity (30 weeks) aged 11 hours.
Inanition, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, aged 25 days. (Died in
Isolation Hospital.)
Prematurity, aged 20 hours.
Pulmonary oedema, Hedges foetalis, erythroblastosis foetalis,
aged 2 days. (Died in Great Ormond Street Hospital.)
* Retro-peritoneal sarcoma, aged 5 months.
Rupture of meningocele, imperfect development, aged 8 days.
(Died in Isolation Hospital.)
*Died after discharge from Maternity Home.
The mothers of three of these infants had not been booked for admission
to the Home, but were admitted as emergency cases for various reasons.