[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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    Hottisham Bourn Burwell Castle Camps Cheveley Coton Cottenluini Croydon Dullingham Duxford Elsworth Kordham Ful bourn Gatnlingay Girton (ireat Slielford Marston Histon Isleham .. Ian ton Melbourn Sawston Soham Steeple Morden Swavesey Waterbcach Wieken .. Willingham 40 104 4-J 120 :51 102 0 29 1!) 40 81 90 24 34 4 4 20 04 (>() 87 OO 98 20 00 122 100 27 07 44 87 4.3 121 .)4 100 .30 100 19 40 27 80 09 78 31 123 00 00 08 08 30 143 48 100 01 01 70 124 Borough of Cambridge.—In tlie Iloroiigh o! Cambridge at tlie end of the year there were 3 midwi\-es in the employ of the Council and G midwives not in their employ practising outside hospitals. Of the latter 2 carried out domiciliary practice and 4 were employed in nursing homes. In addition the nurses em])loyed by the Cambridge District Nursing Association before July 5th and who had acted as mid wives up to that date dealt with the few cases which had been booked by them and in which the confinement had not taken place before the alteration in their duties (15 cases between .Iidy 5th and October 31st). Mid wives attended 23<S confinements between July 5th and December 31st, acting as midwives only in 60 cases and as maternity nurses in 178. In addition midwives attended 830 confinements in the Maternity Hospital (County Hosj)ital) acting as midwives only in 769 and as maternity nurses in 61. The midwives working outside hospital found it necessary to summon medical aid in 12 cases, in 8 of which the medical practitioner concerned had ))reviously arranged to [)rovide the patient with maternity services under their National Health Service contracts. At the end of the year there were 5 midwives outside hospital qualified to administer gas and air analgesia and the number of cases in which the method was used between July 5th and December 31st was 22.