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West Ham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Notes on the clinical features of these cases will be found
in the section on mental deficiency.
The maternity unit.
This unit, as above mentioned, is housed in two separate
blocks. Each block is provided with a properly equipped labour
ward, but the nursing accommodation is far from being adequate.
The lying-in wards are larger than is dictated by modern practice,
and the general lay-out of the two sections of the unit render
administration difficult. There is no satisfactory accommodation
for the isolation of patients who show pyrexia. As a result of the
great expansion of this part of the work of the hospital, the

Table: Table XV.Forest Gate Hospital. Admissions to the maternity unit.

Table XV.

Forest Gate Hospital. Admissions to the maternity unit.

1931193219331934193519361937
Total number of admissions (including infants born in the hospital)9671,0491,0811,2181,3431,6011,883
Number of women confined in the hospital480512523590640779907
Number of live births434476489560615740876
Number of stillbirths46363442345143
Number of deaths of babies under four weeks, born in the hospital19252321141615
Number of deaths of women confined in the hospital5215211
Total deaths24272426161716
Total number of discharges (including infants born in the hospital)9769561,0601,1621,2981,5131,764
Average number of days residence of women confined in the hospital21232219171717