[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Midlothian & Peebleshire.

  • Midlothian & Peebleshire (Scotland). Council.
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Midlothian & Peebleshire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rhesus, etc., Tests carried out during this Pregnancy or Earlier Pregnancy Domiciliary Ante-natal Cases—Year 1963 Rhesus Tested ..... Rhesus Tested and also Haemoglobin Tested Rhesus Tested and also W. R. or K. . Haemoglobin Tested only Haemoglobin Tested and also W. R. or K. W. R. or K No Record of Testing .... Confined at Home Booking T ransferrcd to Hospital Hospital Confinemen! Emergency Hospital Confinement Booked Total 176 (35) 20 (6) 24 (3) 19(4) 239 298 (44) 24(6) 23(1) 53(12) 398 3 2 1 17 23 477 46 48 89 660 117 18 21 104 260 594 64 69 193 920 Numbers in brackets are cases Rhesus negative or W. R. or K. positive Details of analgesia etc. administered in domiciliary cases during the year By Midwife— Trilene Gas and air Trilene and pethedine . Gas, air and pethedine Pethedine . Gas, air and trilene Anaesthetic given by doctor Refused . Too late . Not necessary . Doctor not Doctor Present Present 80 70 11 22 115 14? 14 7 27 36 2 1 249 277 — 5 4 2 23 9 8 17 284 310 Total Local Authority domiciliary confinements—594 Family Planning Following on a request from the Edinburgh Mothers’ Welfare Clinic for assistance in opening a sub-centre in Dalkeith—from which district a number of their clients came—the Health Committee and County Council agreed at the beginning of the year that the facilities of Woodburn Clinic should be granted for one afternoon per week. It will be seen from the following figures that this service is being fully appreciated.