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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    wives. After careful consideration, a highly satisfactory arrangement was concluded last May, whereby the home con¬ finements in the Berwind Service were taken over by the Maternity Center and its Medical Board, while such patients in that service who need hospital delivery and care are admitted to the Lying-In Hospital. Up to date this plan has worked in a most satisfactory manner, not only for the patient, but also for the training program of the Maternity Center and the teaching of abnormal obstetrics in the Cornell University Medical School. The association between the Berwind Clinic and Cornell dates back to 1922, while that between Berwind and the Lying-In Hospital started in 1932. During these years the Cornell medical students and the Lying-In house staff obtained excellent instruc¬ tion and training in that home confinement service. It was, therefore, with a great deal of regret and a consciousness of the magnitude of our loss that we were forced, by conditions beyond our control, to cease our active participation in the work of that Clinic, founded with such foresight by the late Mr. John E. Berwind. We owe a great debt of gratitude not only to him, but also to Mrs. Berwind, who for so many years not only generously supported the work, but also took an active interest in the welfare of the patients and their babies and the conduct of the various functions of the Clinic. During the ten years of our association with the Berwind Clinic, we have delivered 6,888 babies with an infantile mor¬ tality of 2.64 per cent. The maternal mortality for the entire period is 1.45 per thousand pregnancies. The total number of patient discharges from the Lying-In Hospital during 1942 was 8,483 as compared with 7,835 for 1941. During the past year the medical staff delivered 3,351 babies in the Hospital and in the Berwind service, cared for 4,085 obstetrical and 1,367 gynecological patients. The uncor¬ rected maternal mortality for the year is 1.95 per thousand dis¬ charged patients, or 2.23 per thousand pregnancies. This is a slightly higher rate than the average figure of 1.98 per thousand pregnancies for the past ten and one-quarter years, during which time the Hospital obstetrical admissions totalled 42,854. The [9]