[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesbrough County Borough.

  • Middlesbrough (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesbrough County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Municipal Maternity Hospital. Xuinber of beds available Lying in beds . . Ante-natal beds Isolation beds . . 50 43 r* / 3 Summary of work of the Hospital in 1938. Total number of admissions . . Ante-natal cases admitted Emergencies Booked eases Total number of deliveries X'umber of eases delivered by doctors X^umljer of cases delivered by midwives Number of cases notified as Puerperal Pyrexia Number of cases transferred to West Lane Isolation Hospital Number of cases notified es Pemphigus Number of cases notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum Number of cases delivered in patient’s own homes by Hospital mid wives 838 104 127 711 709 90 019 41 15 1 3 94 Ante-natal Clinics. Ante-natal clinics are held at the Maternity Hospital four mornings a week. Patients booked for delivery at the Hospital attend regularly throughout the pregnancy as required by the Medical Officer who takes the clinic. Women who will be attended at home for their confinement by municipal or private midwives are also seen in conjunction with the booked hospital cases on four mornings a week at the Maternity Hospital. In the case of the latter, should any medical treatment be necessary or any abnormality diagnosed or suspected, a note is sent advising the patient’s own midwife of the fact, and if necessary recommending the calling in of the patient’s own doctor. In addition to the Maternity Hospital clinics, two extra clinics are held each month in the ont-lying districts. Total number of attendances at Maternity Hospital Clinic .. .. .. .. 4,114 Number of first attendances . . . . 748 Number of re-attendances . . . . . . 3,366 Total number of all ante-natal attendances for the year . . . . . . . . 4,298 Total number of other first attendances for the year . . . . . . . . 88 * Total number of mothers who attended the clinics . . . . . . . . 836 Of 2,909 notified births, 836 ex])ectant mothers or 28.7% had ante-natal care at a municipal clinic.
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