Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Number of births | |
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1934 | 285 |
1935 | 299 |
1936 | 314 |
1937 | 309 |
1938 | 297 |
1939 | 254 |
1940 | 239 |
1941 | 215 |
1942 | 263 |
1943 | 224 |
1944 | 213 |
1945 | 267 |
Number of maternity beds in the institution (exclusive of
isolation and labour beds), 15.
Number of maternity cases admitted during the year, 265.
Average duration of stay, 12.6 days.
Number of cases delivered by (a) midwives, 239; (b)
doctors, 21.
Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by
a midwife in emergency, 51.
Number of cases notified as (a) puerperal fever, nil; (h)
puerperal pyrexia. 1.
Number of cases of pemphigus neonatorum, 8.
Number of infants not entirely breast-fed while in the
institution, 19.
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum. nil.
Number of maternal deaths, nil.
Number of stillbirths, 4.
Number of infants' deaths within 10 days of birth, nil.
An ante-natal clinic is held every Monday and Friday at
Cavendish Road Clinic, and patients who have booked are expected
to attend.
The post-natal clinic is held once monthly. 10J cases
attended during the year,