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Number of maternity beds in the institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds), 15.
Number of maternity cases admitted during the year, 284.
Average duration of stay, 14 days
Number of cases delivered by—(a) midwife, 249; (6) doctors,
35.
Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by a
midwife in emergency, 54 (33 abnormal conditions, 21 perineal
sutures).
Number of cases notified as—(a) puerperal fever, nil; (b)
puerperal pyrexia, 1.
Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum, nil.
Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in the institution,
3.
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum, nil.
Number of maternal deaths, nil.
Number of infants deaths—(i.) stillborn, 6; (ii.) within 10 days
of birth, 4.
An ante-natal clinic is held every Friday afternoon at the
Cavendish Road Welfare Centre, adjoining the home, and patients
who have booked for the home are expected to attend. For numbers
attending, see under Ante-Natal Clinics.