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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Two deaths in women directly associated with childbirth occurred
during the year, giving a maternal mortality rate of 4.87 per 1,000 live
and stillbirths as compared with 3.23 for England and Wales.
The rate appears unduly high for a district of this type, but as the
figures dealt with are very small the rate does not really give a true
impression of the facts.
Both patients were under the care of their own doctors. The first,
aged 34 years, died as a result of a pulmonary embolism, due to a
thrombosis of the internal saphenous vein. She was delivered prematurily
at the 34th week of a stillborn child.
The second patient, aged 31 years, suffered from kidney disease
during the ante-natal period and died, after delivery, as a result of
complications due to this cause. The child was stillborn.
In neither case was the patient seen by the consultant appointed
by the Council, either before or during her confinement. One of the
patients attended the Ante-Natal Clinic.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of deaths registered during the year in infants under
one year of age was 23 (14 males and 9 females), all but one being in
legitimate children. This gives an infantile mortality rate of 58.23 per
1,000 live births, as compared with 39 in 1936 and 58 for England and
Wales.
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