[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Midwives Acts, 1902—1936. Report upon Domiciliary Midwifery Visits in the County. Number of Ante Natal Visits Number of Live Births attended (Actual) ... Number of Still Births attended (Actual) ... Number of Miscarriages attended Number of Daily Nursing Visits Number of Hospital Post-Natal Nursing Visits Number of Hospital Post-Natal Cases Visited ... 16,270 1,973 49 99 36,554 9,846 2,546 Domiciliary Midwives made the usual minimum of 17 visits to every case confined at home, and about 10 visits were made to each case of miscarriage. Maternity cases discharged from hospitals or Maternity Homes 9 or 10 days after confinement were cared for at home by the domiciliary midwives who attended for the regulation period] of 14 days, or longer if necessary. Supervision of Midwives, as required by the Midwives Act, was carried out by a non-medical Supervisor, who made periodic visits. A few cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified but no serious effects were recorded. Compulsory notification of these cases both to the^famry oo or a to the Supervisor of midwives ensured prompt treatment, with benefit the patient and the prevention of spread of infection by the Midwife concerned. Anti-biotics continue to play an important part in the treatment of these cases. An increasing number of midwives availed themselves of the opportunity when acting as a midwife rather than a maternity nurse of administering pethidine to patients during labour. The issuing of prescriptions for peth d was strictly controlled by the non-medical Supervisor of midwives on behalf of the County Medical Officer. Gas and air analgesia was available to all patients physically 4t to re- ceive it. and all domiciliary Midwives had possession of their own appara . There were no sets in use for administration, of Inlene. Ante-natal visits were made by domiciliary Midwives to patienti in their own homes to ensure that medical advice was being carried out and op ation between the Midwives and General Practitioners was go . 3 Midwives attended a refresher course at Oxford a course at the same place in Sep em ler, . Central Midwives Board. Royal College of Midwives, y “re becomes com- After 1957 an attendance at one of these course.