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74
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM AND PUERPERAL
PYREXIA
These are referred to in Section F of the Report.
MATERNAL MORTALITY
This matter is referred to in Section A of the Report.
MIDWIFERY
(Section 23)
No. of Notifications of Intention to Practice, January,
1950 35
No. of Notifications of Intention to Practice during
1950 6
Total 41
No. of Midwives ceasing to practise during 1950 9
„ „ practising at the end of 1950 32
Medical supervision has been carried out by the Medical Staff
and non-medical supervision by the Matron of the Maternity
Hospital.
The following table shows the work done by Midwives (including
those employed at Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital)
during 1950:—
No. of confinements attended as a Midwife 1,430
„ confinements attended as a Maternity Nurse 240
„ Medical Aid Notices sent 577
„ Twin Births Notified 23
„ Triplet Births Notified 1
„ Stillbirths Notified 2
„ Notifications of Liability to be a source of Infection 2
„ Notifications of Laying out a Dead Body —
„ Notifications of Artificial Feeding 9
„ Notifications of Disinfection 1
The previous table includes the following numbers in regard
to work done at Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital:—
Midwifery cases 1,117
Maternity cases 128
Medical Aid Notices 509
The percentage of Medical Aid Notices were:—
All cases 34.5
Maternity Hospital Midwives 40.8
Other Midwives 16.0