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The table above includes the following numbers with regard to
work done at Thorpe Coombe :—
Midwifery cases 1,125
Maternity cases 128
Medical Aid Notices 554
The percentage of Medical Aid Notices were :—
All cases 37.9
Maternity Hospital Midwives 49.2
Domiciliary Midwives 21.5
The conditions for which Medical Aid was summoned by
Midwives in domiciliary practice have been summarised and are as
follows: —
For complications during pregnancy :—
Miscarriage 4
Antepartum haemorrhage 7
Other conditions 5
Total 16
For complications during labour : —
Prolonged 1st and 2nd Post-partum hasmor-
stage 30 rhage 6
Ruptured perineum 49 Retained placenta 8
Premature labour Abnormal presentation 6
Rise of temperature 8 Other conditions 25
Total 132
For complications in regard to the infant: —
Stillbirth 2 Prematurity and Feeble
Jaundice 3 ness 5
Convulsions 1 Asphyxia 3
Inflamed eyes 9 Cyanosis 2
Other conditions 6
Total 31
Medical Aid Fees.—Your Committee recommended—that, as
from beginning of the financial year, no recovery was to be obtained
from the patient in regard to medical aid fees.
Compensation for Loss of Cases.—Compensation is made to
Midwives by payment of 10s. Od. per confinement lost by reason
of the reference of the patient from the Council's Ante-Natal
Clinic to hospital on account of any abnormality. No claim for
compensation was made during 1947.
Gas and Air Analgesia.—The Municipal Ambulance Service
provided transport facilities for gas and air apparatus.