Annual report : 1942 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.

  • Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New-York.
Date:
1942
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Credit: Annual report : 1942 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL REPORT To the Board of Governors of The Society of the Lying-In Hospital: Gentlemen : I have the honor to present the professional report of the, Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York for the year 1942. The past year has witnessed drastic reductions in professional and other personnel. However, it is most satisfying to note that patient care has not suffered in proportion to the decrease in the medical and nursing staffs. To provide adequate pro¬ fessional service to an even larger number of patients than heretofore, with a partly depleted attending staff and a house staff of eleven members, as compared to one of twenty-two a year ago, it has been necessary to discontinue many special clinics in the out-patient department, to combine some clinics and functions, to sacrifice certain portions of patients’ records and to eliminate all laboratory and other procedures not abso¬ lutely essential to the well-being of the patient. In other words, it has become necessary for us to reorganize, within a relatively short space of time, the professional work of the Hospital on a scheme embodying only the bare essentials of patient care. In addition to these changes, we have been faced with a marked increase in the number of obstetrical patients. In order to care for this larger number of maternity cases, it has been necessary to discharge patients one, two or more days earlier than previously. The great demand for doctors in our military services, result¬ ing in a fifty per cent reduction in the resident staff of the Hospital, has forced this institution to terminate its agreement with the Berwind Free Maternity Clinic, by which we super¬ vise and supply doctors for home deliveries. Mrs. John E. Berwind and the Berwind Board have been most understanding and cooperative in this matter. It is indeed fortunate that at the time we had to consider a reorganization of the Berwind Clinic, the Maternity Center Association wanted to extend its home delivery service conducted for the training of nurse mid- [8]