[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MATERNAL AND CHILD WELL Hospital. During the year, 8 women were at the Llandrindod Wells Hospital under arrangement' n i :.e by your Authority, 3 were from the Urban Districts and 3 Pi't the Rural. Four were unmarried (\ Urban, 3 Rural). Four ' • ' ••• aged 13, 2.5, 26, and 37 years, with Puerpena Fever (2 U: . 2 Rural were admitted, and there was 1 death/ the jato: tged 27 years), had been attended in labour by a hand'nan, and later when Puerperal Fever developed, by a lector and District Nurse/ she was admitted to Hospital on 1 'wit 11th and died on the 14th. The other 4 cases (1 Urban, 3 1 rral) were admitted on account of the following conditions :— r (1) Aged 22 years; unmarried. Difficult lab: and un- satisfactory home conditions. (2) Aged 22 years/ unmarried. Unsatisfactory home con- ditions. (3) Aged 37 years/ Abortion at 4 months, limrent pla- centa. (4) Aged 21 years, Primipara. Difficult If. : on / contrac- ted pelvis. Maternal Mortality (1929), Investigation ~ ; made in regard to the 4 deaths. Two deaths occurred fro rot Puerperal Sepsis at the age period 25-45, 1 in the Knighton I _rnl District, and 1 in the Painscastle District/ 2 deaths occurm-i at the same age period from other diseases of pregnancy, in ::: Knighton Urban District. Maternal Morality (1923—9) At the meeting of the Maternity and Child Plfare ar.d Midwives Act Committee, held in January, 1930, 1 t risen ted a Report on Maternal Mortality in Radnorshire. Srtistics in regard to Mortality for the 10 years, 1919—28 in ?..Mnorsh;:e were given on page 13 of my Annual Report for 112: : be rate r the County was 6'2 (Puerperal Fever P0, other c:: 2 cions 5'2 compared with a rate of 4 0 [Puerperal Fever 1*5, room conditions 2 5] for England and Wales. The total rate for :he 7'rban Dis- tricts of Radnorshire was 3'3, and for the Rural 7'1 Since 192 detailed particulars have been obtained in regard to 7 out of ih 19 deaths [3 Urban and 16 Rural] up to the end of 2:2 - The fol- lowing is a summary of the information obtained. 1- Of the 17 women, 4 were unmarried, equal to 24 per cent The percentage of illegrmale births in the Cncntv in K25 was 77 ('Urban 6.9, Rural 7*9] 2. In only 3 cases was a midwife hooked (or ? ~as a bona- fide midwife, without proper qualifications), in 2 tones booked the intervals before labour were 6 weeks and 3 months. Two nurse-midwives attended as Maternity Nurses with ^ Sector. CD Lji](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28874833_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
