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(d) For Complications in regard to the Infant:—
Asphyxia 10
Feeble condition 3
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SUMMARY OF ABNORMAL CASES.
Pregnancy toxaemia including eclampsia 29
Chronic nephritis 1
Ante-partum haemorrhage—
(a) Placenta praevia 6
(b) Toxaemia 1
(c) Undetermined 2
Organic heart disease 10
Post-partum haemorrhage (over 20 ounces) 30
Manual removal of placenta 3
Puerperal pyrexia—
(a) Local infection 2
(b) Uterine and peritoneal infection 1
(c) Urinary infection 1
(d) Pyelitis 1
(e) Non-suppurative mastitis 14
(f) Suppurative mastitis 1
(g) Influenzal cold 4
(h) Undiagnosed 2
Total 108
Operations performed:—
Caesarean section, on account of—
(a) Cardiac disease 2
(b) Disproportion and contracted pelvis 8
(c) Previous still-births 1
(d) Placenta praevia 2
Induction of labour 8
Forceps delivery 53
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
There were two maternal deaths in the Hospital during the
year. In the first case this was due to pulmonary infarction
associated with thrombo-phlebitis of the iliac veins; in the second
case the patient's death was due to auricular fibrillation and
occurred after Cæsarean Section.