[Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council.
- Montgomeryshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1971
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MIDWIFERY: Fifteen midwives were employed by the County in 1971 in combined district/nurse/midwife posts. The number of home confinements continues to be a very small proportion of the total births and only 12 babies were delivered at' home. The small number of domiciliary con- finements over the past five years gives rise to some concern as many of our midwives have only infrequent opportunities to maintain their skills. It, however, remains important to have skilled midwives in the community as some of the home deliveries arise in emergency situations. Whilst the duties of the midwife at confinements in the home have been drastically reduced, the number of early discharges of mothers and babies.delivered in hospital continues to rise. In 1971, 378 mothers were discharged before the tenth day. These cases were nursed by the domiciliary m.idwives during the remainder of the. lying-in period. The total number of visits to all midwifery cases nursed at home for all or part of the lying-in period was 1918. ANTE-NATAL CLINICS: These were carried out by general practitioners at the local hospitals and in their own surgeries. District Nurse/Midwives, in some districts, attend and assist at ante-natal sessions held at the general practitioners' surgeries. 156 ante-natal visits were made by the midwives to patients in their own homes. Domiciliary and Institutional Confinements Year 1939 1949 1959 1969 Total Births ( T W R, P-f-lTl) 709 793 716 669 Domici1ary ;_o] ‘N umb e r 504 307 160 13 Hospital Con f Inemen t_s_ , finements . _ I C-aDXingment£—_ Percentage oft Number! Percentage ol Total Births 71.1 38.7 22. 3 1.9 205 486 556 656 Total Births 28.9 61.3 77.7 98.1 No. of Domiciliary Cas es Attended by Midwives 19 6 5 19 6 6 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Doctor not booked 3 Doctor booked 55 2 41 13 12 2 11 2 10 1 11 58 43 13 12 13 12 12 Doctor present at delivery 4 3 3 4 2 Doctor not present 9 9 10 8 10 13 12 13 12 12](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28862764_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
