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4. Average duration of stay in lying-in wards—11.8.
5. Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives—1,125 ; (b) Doctors—128 ; Total—1,253.
6. Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency—554.
7. Number of cases admitted after delivery—21.
8. Number of cases notified as—
(a) Puerperal Fever—Nil ; (b) Puerperal Pyrexia—20.
9. Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum—Nil.
10. (a) Number of infants on a supplementary or complementary
feed on discharge—250.
(b) Number of infants wholly breast fed on leaving the
Institution—976.
11. (a) Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum—1.
(b) Result of treatment in each case—Satisfactory.
12. Number of maternal deaths—2.
13. (a) Number of stillbirths—31.
(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—18.
(b) Cause of death in each case, and results of post-mortem
examination (if obtainable)—See Clinical Report.
The stillbirth rate was 24.5 per 1,000 live and still births, and
the neo-natal mortality within 10 days of birth was 14.0 per 1,000
live births.
(b) Occupation of Beds.—The average daily occupation of beds
was as follows : —
January 45.2 July 46.9
February 42.5 August 39.8
March 44.7 September 31.6
April 48.1 October 41.7
May 37.5 November 37.2
June 42.1 December 41.0
The average for the whole year was equal to 83 per cent, of
beds occupied (based on 50 beds).
(c) Emergency Unit.—The services of the emergency unit were
required on four occasions in the District 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.