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The percentages of medical aid notices were:Total,
38,4. Maternity Hospital, 52.5. Domiciliary midwives,24.5.
The conditions for which medical aid was summoned by midwives
in domiciliary practice have been summarised and were as follows:-
For complications during pregnancy:-
Albuminuria 3 Threatened abortion -
Varicose veins 3 Miscarriage 4
Abortion 1 Other conditions 4
Abdominal pain 2 Total 17
For complications during labour:-
Delayed 1st. and 2nd. stage 30 Ante-partum haemorrhage 4
Perineal laceration 69 Retained placenta 2
Malpresentation 2 Abdominal pain 2
Pyrexia 3 Other conditions 23
Post-partum haemorrhage 4 Total 139
For complications in regard to the infant:-
Prematurity and feebleness 4 Cyanosis 1
Discharging eyes 7 Other conditions 7
Total 19
Details of medical aid notices issued by midwives employed at
Thorpe Coombe are given in the Maternity Hospital report.
MUNICIPAL MIDWIFERY AND MATERNITY SERVICE.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936 (Nursing Homes).- See Public Health
Section of the Report.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
29 cases of Puerperal Pyrexia were notified during 1942.
The puerperal pyrexia rate for 1942 was 18.2 per 1,000 births,
as compared with 29.1 in 1941, and the mortality due to puerperal
sepsis was 3.4 per cent. of the cases of puerperal pyrexia
notified.
ABORTION.
CIRCULAR 1661.- The number of cases in which medical aid
notices were issued during 1942 by midwives in accordance with
Rule E of the Central Midwives Board was:-
Threatened abortion and miscarriage 2
Abortion and miscarriage 3
33.