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The following notifications were received from midwives
practising in the district:—
Stillbirths 3
Artificial Feeding 9
Liability to be a Source of Infection 21
Notification of Death 1
Laying out Dead Body 3
Total 37
Medical Aid forms were received in one hundred and
eleven instances, and the following table shows the conditions
for which medical help was obtained:—
Albuminuria 4
Eclampsia 2
Placenta Prævia 1
Abortion and Miscarriage 3
Post Partum Haemorrhage 5
Delayed Labour 13
Disproportion 1
Malpresentation 3
Adherent Placenta 4
Retained Membranes 1
Ruptured perineum 32
Rise of Temperature 10
Prematurity, Congenital Defects, etc. 8
Sticky Eye 12
Pemphigus Neonatorum 2
Other conditions (Mother) 8
Other Conditions (Infant) 8
The total fees paid to doctors by the Corporation during
the year under Section 14 (1) of the Midwives Act, 1918,
amounted to £112 l1s. 6d. The amount recovered from the
patients' relatives was £43 14s. 7d.
Centres.—The work carried out at the Centres during
1937 is indicated in the following table:—
30