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97
For complications during labour:—
Delayed 1st and 2nd
Ante-partum
stage
33
rhage
8
Perineal laceration
43
Retained placenta
2
Malpresentation
8
Abdominal pain
2
Pyrexia
12
Other conditions
20
Post-partum
rhage
1
Total
129
Details of medical aid notices issued by midwives employed at
Thorpe Coombe are given in the Maternity Hospital report.
Compensation for Loss of Cases.—Compensation is made
to midwives by the payment of 10s. per confinement lost by reason
of the reference of the patient from the Council's Ante-Natal
Clinic to hospital on account of any abnormality.
Four claims for compensation were made during 1938. Hospital
treatment was required for all four cases owing to malpresentation.
Municipal Midwifery and Maternity Service.—The scheme
drawn up under the Midwives Act, 1936, and detailed in the Report
for 1937, became operative on January 1st, 1938.
Six whole-time midwives had previously been appointed by
your Council and two by the Walthamstow District Nursing Association
acting on your behalf.
The service has worked well and only a few minor complications
have arisen.
The table below shows the number of visits done:—
Ante-Natal Visits.
Deliveries.
Lying-in
Visits.
Total
Visits.
Patients'
Homes.
Midwife's
House.
Clinic.
Mid.
Mat.
1985
833
1377
361
110
9108
13774
For complications in regard to the infant:—
Prematurity and feeble- Cyanosis 2
ness 5 Other conditions 14
Discharging eyes 14
Melaena 1 Total 36