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The Home speedily became popular and its value recognised
in the district, and it therefore became necessary to refuse cases
from adjacent districts. On December 31st, 1919, 53 cases had
been booked for future admission into the Home.
From the date of opening until December 31st, 1919—
161 women were admitted into the Home; of these
151 were confined in the Home,
of the remaining ten
5 were admitted immediately after confinement,
1 was admitted after an incomplete abortion,
1 after a threatened abortion,
3 for examination as to some puerperal condition ; of these,
1 was transferred to the Emergency Hospital for an
abdominal operation, and
1 to the Isolation Hospital suffering from mastitis.
1 had a slight operation (curettage) in the Home and was
discharged, being cured.
Of the 151 confinements 82 had engaged their own doctor,
and 69 were attended by one or other of the Midwives of the
Home; owing to various complications it was necessary to call
in a doctor in 28 of the latter cases.
Eight deaths occurred in the Home—5 women and 3 babies
—3 of the women died from influenzal pneumonia during the epidemic
of the winter of 1918 and spring of 1919, having been
admitted owing to home exigencies while suffering from this very
fatal ailment. One woman died from nephritis and severe postpartum
hæmorrhage, and one from severe ante-partum and postpartum
hæmorrhage.
The three babies died from congenital debility, one lived only
8 hours, another 26 hours, and the third 16 days.
Four children were still-born.
1 owing to eclampsia in the mother.
1 craniotomy—difficult labour.
2 macerated foetus.
In November, 1919, a woman w as admitted while incubating
scarlet fever, and developed the rash shortly after admission.
She was removed to the Isolation Hospital, the Home placed in
quarantine and thoroughly disinfected, and no further cases
occurred.