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home or discharged from hospital before the sixth day. 585 tests were
made during the year and 41 repeat tests were made.
Organisation
2 midwives are housed at 28/30 Kings Road, Wimbledon,
S.W.19.
1 at ' The Croft', Mitcham.
1 in a flat leased from the Greater London Council, and the
remaining three in their own homes.
Two district nurse/midwives relieve full-time midwives during
holidays, refresher courses, sickness, etc. All midwives are motorists
using their own cars or one supplied by the authority.
Maternity Cases Attended
There were 169 domiciliary confinements reported and 2,308
hospital confinements during the year. This shows a reduction of 34
on the figure for 1969. Midwives employed by the Authority attended
all home confinements, a doctor having been booked in all 169 cases.
Inhalational Analgesia
All the Authority's Midwives are qualified in administering inhalational
analgesia (trilene and gas and oxygen) in accordance with
the rules of the Central Midwives' Board. During the year, district
midwives administered inhalational analgesia to mothers as follows:
Gas and oxygen—119 Trilene—9
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
One case was notified during the year.
Maternity Outfits
A free issue of maternity outfits is made in accordance with the
instructions of the Department of Health and Social Security, namely
to those patients whose confinement will be conducted under the
National Health Service arrangements. These are issued by midwives
to their patients.
Medical Aid
Medical aid was summoned by midwives to 79 domiciliary cases
where a doctor was already booked for the confinement.
The Emergency Obstetric Unit
The aid of this unit was summoned on three occasions and the
patients were subsequently admitted to hospital: —
1 post-partum haemorrhage.
1 retained placenta.
1 prolapsed cord.
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