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The total accommodation of the Hospital when these extensions
are completed will be:—
Lying-in beds, 47. Isolation beds, 6. Total, 53.
General.—(a) Form M.C.W. 96A (Ministry of Health).
1. Name and Address of Institution—Thorpe Coombe Maternity
Hospital, 714, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E.17.
2. Number of maternity beds in the Institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds)—35.
2a. Number of beds, if any, under item 2 which have been allocated
to, and reserved for, expectant mothers in need of
hospital treatment—Variable according to requirements.
No definite reservation.
3. Number of maternity oases admitted during the year—729
(including ante- and post-natal cases).
3a. Number of women treated during the year in the beds shown
against item 2a. (Included in item 3).—109.
4. Average duration of stay of cases included against item 3—
13.7.
5. Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives—535.
(b) Doctors—107.
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—275.
7. Number of cases notified as—
(a) Puerperal fever—Nil.
(b) Puerperal pyrexia—18.
8. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
9. Number of infants not entirely breastfed while in the
tion—73.
10. Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—Nil.
11. (cr) Number of maternal deaths—3.
(6) Cause of death in each case: —
(1) (a) Pulmonary embolism due to
(b) Thrombo-Phlebitis and saphenous veins of left
lower extremity.
(2) (a) Acute intestinal obstruction due to
(b) Paralytic Ileus—acute dilatation of the stomach.
(3) (a) Toxaemia and cardiac failure due to
(b) Broncho Pneumonia due to
(r) Acute Bronchitis (onset one week before confinement).