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The following particulars are given in the form required by
the Ministry of Health:—
1. Name and address of Institution—Thorpe Coombe Maternity
Home, 714, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E.17.
2. Number of maternity beds in the Institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds)—35.
3. Number of maternity oases admitted during the year
ing Ante-Natal cases)—258.
4. Average duration of stay—14.0 days.
5. Number of cases delivered by:—
(а) Midwives—195.
(b) Doctors—34.
6. Number of oases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—106.
7. Number of oases notified as:—
(а) Puerperal fever—Nil.
(b) Puerperal pyrexia—3 (2 due to breasts, 1 P.U.O.)
8. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
9. Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in the
Institution—3.
10. (a) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—1.
(b) Result of treatment in each case—vision unimpaired.
11. (a) Number of maternal deaths—1.
(b) Cause of death in each case—Fulminant Puerperal
Eclampsia.
12. (a) Number of infant deaths:—
(i) Stillborn—6.
(ii) within 10 days of birth—1.
(b) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem
examination (if obtainable): —
(i) 4 macerated.
1 anencephalic.
1 difficult forceps delivery.
(ii) Premature twin.