Annual report : 1945 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1945
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1945 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
11/44 page 9
![MEDICAL REPORT To the Board of Governors of The Society of the Lying-In Hospital: Gentlemen : Although we have been faced with a critical shortage in pro¬ fessional staff, both medical and nursing, as well as in orderlies and attendants, the operation of the Hospital has continued through the year at full capacity. In 1945 the total census of discharged patients, including infants, was 8,817 as compared with 8,787 in 1944. In the obstetrical division of the Hospital 4,093 women and 3,235 babies were cared for, with an uncorrected maternal mortality, including all stages of gestation, of 1.15 per 1,000 pregnancies and a gross infantile mortality of 2.7 per cent. In the gynecological service we treated 1,489 women. The total number of operations was 1,242 with a postoperative mortality of 0.4 per cent. The occupancy on the private service for 1945 was 92.7 per cent as contrasted with 88.3 per cent in 1944. The increase in the number of patients on this service was 50, or slightly over 7 per cent; in other words, the average duration has remained the same or even slightly less. The occupancy on the semi¬ private service for 1945 was 89-6 per cent as contrasted with 83-7 per cent in 1944. The increase in number of patients was only 18, or 1.5 per cent, indicating an increase in the length of stay for the patients, which reduced the admission to the semi¬ private service by at least 50 patients. It would appear desirable to obtain the best possible coordination so as to meet the demands placed on that service. The average reduction of one- half day on the admissions would have permitted 500 more patient days, or 50 admissions for an average of ten days. The occupancy in the ward service was 85 per cent. As stated in the 1944 Report, the semi-private beds in the Hospital were increased by sixteen in 1943. During the past [9]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31711078_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
