[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Lincoln City.

  • Lincoln (England). City Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Lincoln City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Municipal District Midwifery Service. The Municipal Midwives attended 477 domiciliary cases as mid¬ wives and 195 as Maternity Nurses. Medical Aid was summoned in 255 cases. The number of cases attended under the Municipal Midwifery Service during the last 5 years was As Midwives. as follows:— As Maternity Nurses. Total. 1944 477 195 672 1943 439 149 588 1942 43i 135 566 1941 472 123 595 1940 496 133 629 The number of ante-natal examinations carried out at the ante-natal clinic was 636. Maternity Home. The Children’s Nursery, Macaulay Drive, continued to be used as the City Maternity Home during 1944. The 14 beds provided are inadequate for the needs of the City and efforts are being made to provide additional maternity accommodation. There were 275 women admitted to the Home during the year and medical aid was summoned in 74 cases. The number of women admitted to the Maternity Home during the last five years was as follows :— 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 202 192 243 291 275 Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Nine cases were notified during the year as against two during 1943. The vision was unimpaired in all cases. Puerperal Pyrexia. The number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia notified during the last five years was :— 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 8 7 n 7 11 Maternal Mortality. There were two deaths in the City which were considered maternal deaths, this gives the Maternal Mortality rate of 1.49 as compared with 1.77 for the'previous year and 1.93 for England and Wales. War-Time Nurseries. Two War-Time Nurseries, each for 40 children, were available during the year. The number of children on the Register at the end of the year was as follows :— Newland War-Time Day Nursery St. Giles War-Time Day Nursery 40