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Post Graduate Lectures to Midwives.
Five lectures were arranged by the Walthamstow District
Nursing Association, acting in conjunction with the Council,
and were given by Dame Louise Mcllroy during May 1943.
A total of 52 midwives and pupil midwives, including midwives
from contiguous areas, made 136 attendances.
CONSULTANT OBSTETRICIANS.
The services of a Consultant Obstetrician were not
required during 1943.
MIDLIVES ACTS, 1902-1936.
No. of Notices of Intention to Practise, January, 1943 25
" " " " " during 1943 13
Total 38
No. of Midwives ceasing to practise during 1943 9
" practising at the end of 1943 29
There was no change in the arrangements for the employment
or subsidy of midwives by the Council.
Non-medical supervision of Municipal Midwives has been carried
out by the Assistant Matron at the Maternity Hospital.
The following table shows the work done by midwives (including
those employed at Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital) during 1943:-
No. of confinements attended as a Midwife 1429
„ „ „ „ „ „ „ Maternity Nurse 208
" " medical aid notices sent 535
" " notifications of deaths 6
" " twin births notified 28
" " stillbirths " 11
" " notifications of liability to be a source of
infection 9
" " " " laying out of a dead body 1
" " " " artificial feeding 13
" " " " disinfection 9
The above table includes the following numbers with regard to
work done at Thorpe Coombe:-
Midwifery cases, 797
Maternity cases, 94
Medical Aid Notices, 339
The percentages of medical aid notices were:Total,
32.6. Maternity Hospital, 38.0. Domiciliary midwives,26.2
The conditions for which medical aid was summoned by midwives
in domiciliary practice have been summarised and were as follows:
For complications during pregnancy 9
" " " labour 165
" " in regard to the infant 22
Details of medical aid notices issued by midwives employed
at Thorpe Coombe are given in the Maternity Hospital report.
41.