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9. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
10. (a) Number of infants on a supplementary or complementary
feed on discharge—170.
(b) Number of infants wholly breast fed on leaving the
Institution—1,027.
11. (a) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—1.
(b) Result of treatment in each case—Satisfactory.
12. (a) Number of maternal deaths—3 (1 admitted after delivery).
13. (a) Number of stillbirths—46.
(b) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem
examination (if obtainable)—See Clinical Report.
14. (a) Number of infant deaths within 10 days of birth—19.
(b) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem
examination (if obtainable)—See Clinical Report.
The stillbirth rate was 36.8 per 1,000 live and still births, and
the neo-natal mortality within 10 days of birth was 15.2 per 1,000
live births.

The average for the whole year was equal to 93.8 per cent, of
beds occupied (based on 50 beds).
(c) Emergency Unit.—The services of the emergency unit were
not required during the year.
(d) Gas and Air Analgesia.—The Maternity Hospital is
approved by the Central Midwives Board for the purpose of giving
special instruction in gas and air analgesia.
(e) Training of Pupil Midwives.—The Hospital is approved by
the Central Midwives Board (jointly with the Middlesex Hospital,
for the training of pupil midwives in Part I) and Part II of the
training.
During 1946, 24 pupils from Thorpe Coombe obtained the
Part I and 24 the Part II Certificate of the Central Midwives Board.
The Council agreed to pay the examination fees.
(f) Conditions of Service.—The Council have adopted all the
recommendations of the Midwives' Salaries Committee.
The following Clinical Report has been compiled by Miss Helen
Rodway, M.R.C.O.G., Resident Obstetrician.
THORPE COOMBE MATERNITY HOSPITAL
CLINICAL REPORT FOR 1946
The Hospital, with 35 maternity beds, was opened in May,
1934, and in the eight months of that year there were 229