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2. Number of maternity beds in the Institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds)—43.
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—675
(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).—119.
4. Average duration of stay of cases included against item 3—
14.12.
5. Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives—500.
(b) Doctors—95.
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—264.
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
tion—107 complemented, 31 (artificially fed).
10®. Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—1.
10b. Result of treatment. Satisfactory after-treatment at St.
Margaret's Hospital.
11. (a.) Number of maternal deaths—2.
(b) Cause of death in each case:—
(1) Pulmonary infarction associated with
phlebitis of iliac veins.
(2) Auricular fibrillation; Mitral incompetence; Death
occurred following Caesarean Section.
12. (a) Number of infant deaths—
(1) Stillborn—19.
(2) Within 10 days of birth—12.
(6) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem
examination (if obtainable).