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Walthamstow 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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New 6-bed isolation (or post-natal) block with single wards
and separate quarters for nurses on 1st floor.
New ante-natal block, laboratory, etc.
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. 96 A (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 cases admitted during the year—775
(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).—100.
1. Average duration of stay of cases included against item 3—
13.9.
5. Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives—570.
(b) Doctors—-121.
6. Number of oases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—322.
7. Number of cases notified as—
(a) Puerperal fever—Nil.
(b) Puerperal pyrexia—26.
8. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
9. Number of infants not entirely breast fed while in the institu
tion—115 complemented, 36 (artificially fed).
10. Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—-Nil.
11. (a) Number of maternal deaths—2.
(b) Cause of death in each case :—
(1) (a) Paralytic Ileus.
(b) Eclampsia due to Pregnancy Toxaemia.
(2) (a) Ante-partum Haemorrhage due to
(b) Separation of placenta, due to Pregnancy
Toxaemia.