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MATERNITY HOSPITAL
From the 5th July, 1948, the Hospital was included in Group 12
(Ilford and Barking Hospital Management Committee), North-East Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board.
During 1948, 1,144 patients were admitted into the Hospital, compared
with 1,056 in 1947, 1,020 in 1946, 824 in 1945, 784 in 1944, 601 in 1943,
396 in 1942 and 369 in 1941.
Of the 1,144 patients admitted during 1948, 110 were admitted direct
to the Emergency Block and 1,034 to the Ward Blocks.
296 cases could not be admitted during the year and other arrangements
were made for their confinement.
At the end of the year 578 cases had booked for future admission to
the Hospital.
The average number of mothers in the Maternity Hospital per day
during 1948 was 34.93.
Wilnett Lodge Post-Natal Home received 320 patients from the
Maternity Hospital during 1948. The Home, opened on 22nd September,
1947, has accommodation for 9 mothers and babies.
The average length of stay of mothers in the Maternity Hospital was
12.96 days, which included an average stay of 6.44 days in respect of those
patients transferred to Wilnett Lodge.
The policy of discharging patients, where possible, before the 14th day
of the puerperium was continued during the year, thus enabling more cases
to be admitted. 926 of the 1,144 patients admitted were discharged from
either the Maternity Hospital or Wilnett Lodge before the 14th day.
It is interesting to note that during the year 48 of the patients admitted
(or 4'2 per cent.) were primiparas aged 35 years or over, compared with
only 16 (or 2'5 per cent.) in 1938 the last complete year prior to the war.
EMERGENCY BLOCK.
127 cases were treated, 110 being admitted direct to this Block and
17 being transferred from the Ward Blocks.
64 of these 110 cases had not been booked for admission to the Maternity
Hospital.
10 of the 110 patients were admitted direct to the Emergency Block
for ante-natal treatment and were subsequently transferred to or re-admitted
to the Ward Blocks for confinement.
The average number of mothers in the Emergency Block per day during
1948 was 4.47 (including cases transferred from the Ward Blocks) and the
average length of stay of patients admitted direct to this Block was 12.7
days.
69 patients were confined in the Emergency Block (64 admitted direct to
this Block and 5 transferred from the Ward Blocks). The 10 cases mentioned
above have been included in the figures for those confined in the
Ward Blocks. 35 of the 69 cases were first confinements and 34 were
second or subsequent confinements.
17 cases (or 24 6 per cent.) were delivered by means of forceps, 6
following surgical induction. In addition labour was surgically induced in
11 cases.