[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following are the details :— Ante-natal examinations at To be delivered by midwife 234 To be transferred to doctor 3 or about the Refered to hospital 10 16th week : Consultant’s opinion required 1 Ante-natal examinations at the 32nd-36th week : 235 2 9 i Institutional delivery recommended 7 3 Post-natal examinations at 10th to 14th day : Cases taken Treatment required normal course (excluding dental treatment) Treatment being obtained 114 9 4 Reference to hospital desirable Post-natal examinations about the 6th week : 78 10 7 The corres})ondence between the numbers examined earlv and late in pregnaney (16th week and 32nd-36th week) has never been so high before. The greater reluctanee of women to have post-natal examina- tions still remains, as does the falling off between the first post- natal examination and the second, though it is interesting to note that the proportion of cases requiring treatment is considerablv higher at the second examination than at the first. There were 3 domiciliary obstetric consultations in 1948 all of which took place before July 5th. After Jidy 5th, the Council’ s arrange- ments were no longer operative, domiciliary obstetric consultations being provided through the Regional Hospital Hoard or Board of Governors in exactly the same w'av as are other domiciliarv consultations. Premature Infants.—The arrangements for dealing with premature births remained the same as in 1948 and w’ere unaffected by the National Health Service Act. The number of births of children with a birth w'eight of 5^ lbs. or under was 77 as com})ared with 76 in the ])revious year. Ot these 20 were born in the mother’s own home and 57 in hospital or nursing home. Of the babies born at lumie 17 were nursed without admission to hospital, 1 died within the first tw’enty-four hours and 18 survived at the end of one month. Of those born in hos}>ital 2 died in the first tw'enty-four hours and 53 survived more than one month. These figures indicate some slight reversal of the position of the previous year as to the relative proportions of those born at home and those born m hospital surviving after 24 hours and after one month. In 1948 the proportion surviving at each })eriod was greater for those born in hospital.