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The Registrar-General's records show that the maternal death,
rate was:—
Deaths from Puerperal Sepsis 1
From other Puerperal Causes 4
Total 5
Maternal death rate per 1,000 live and still births 2.69
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
The number of Nursing Homes on the register at the beginning
of the year was 1.
No applications for registration were received.
Hospitals exempt from registration 1
(The Prince of Wales's General Hospital).
Number on the register at the end of the year 1
HOME HELPS.
Assistance was granted towards the services of Home Helps to
182 mothers; an increase of fifty for the year.
At the Town Hall a list of suitable women who are prepared to
act in this capacity is supplied to expectant mothers, and in
necessitous cases the cost of the home help has been defrayed by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
Accouchement Bags have been available at the Centres and
loaned in suitable cases. Maternity outfits have been provided:—
585 at cost price; part cost 55; and free 92.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Only one case was notified. One case of Discharging Eye
was also reported. Both these cases made a satisfactory recovery -
EVACUATION OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS.
The evacuation scheme for the expectant mother remained
very popular, the numbers increasing from 373 in 1941, to 484 in
1942.