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3a. Number of wcmen treated during the year in the ante-natal beds shown
against item 2a. (These women should be included also against item 3)
141.
3b. x Average duration of stay of expectant mothers in the ante-natal beds
shown against item 2a. - 4.85.
4. x Average duration of stay of cases in the lying-in wards. - 14.41.
5. Number of cases delivered by -
(a) Midwives - 795, (b) Doctors - 112, Total 907.
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a midwife
in emergency - 261.
7. Number of cases admitted after delivery - 6.
8. Number of cases notified as -
(a) Puerperal fever - Nil, (b) Puerperal pyrexia - 17.
9. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum - Nil.
10. (a) Number of infants on a supplementary feed on disoharge. -
102 complemented, 26 artificially fed.
(b) Number of infants wholly breastfed on leaving the Institution - 763.
11. (a) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum - Nil.
(b) Result of treatment in each case. -
2. (a) Number of maternal deaths - 1.
(b) Cause of death in each case.-
Ante-partum haemorrhage due to rupture of the uterus.
Toxaemia of pregnancy.
3. (a) Number of stillbirths - 24.
(b) Cause in each case, and results of post-mortem examination
(if obtainable) -
See Clinical report.
4. .(a) Number of infant deaths within 10 days of birth - 9.
(b) Cause ofddeath in each case, and results of post-mortem examination
(if obtainable). - See Clinical report.
The stillbirth rate was 25.9 per 1,000 live and still births, and the
neo-natal mortality within 10 days of birth was 10.0 per 1,000 live births.
Occupation of beds. - The average daily occupation of beds was as
follows: -
January 42.16
February 40.89
March 39.06
April 38.73
May39.6
June37.9
July 35.2
August 29.5
September 28.7
October 33.1
November 29.8
December 31.2
The average for the whole year was equal to 64.8 per cent.beds occupied
(based on 54 beds.)
Emergency Unit. - The services of the emergency unit were not required
during the year.
Gas and Air Analgesia. - The Msternity Hospital is approved by the
Central Midwives Board for the purpose of giving special instruction in
gas and sir analgesia.
training of Pupil Midwives. - The Hospital is approved by the Central
Midwives Board, jointly with the Middlesex Hospital, for the training of
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