[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Market Harborough and District Hospital ... 1 Soke of Peterborough Maternity Home ... 1 The Barratt Maternity Home, Northampton General Hospital 168 Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby . 1 Emergency Maternity Homes .. 300 The total number of cases admitted to hospital under the County arrangements was 602, compared with 546 in 1942 and 408 in 1941. (viii) Ante-Natal Clinics. At the end of the year there were 13 ante-natal clinics ; 4 additional ante-natal clinics were provided for evacuee mothers. Ante-Natal Clinics were held weekly at Northampton, Wellingborough, Rushden and Corby, fortnightly at Daventry and monthly at Brixworth, Byfield, Kettering, Middleton Cheney, Rothwell, Thrapston, Towcester and Oundle. A new clinic was opened at Rothwell. Clinics for evacuee mothers for St. John's Emergency Maternity Home continued to be held at Guildhall Road on Mondays and Thursdays, at Norton Hall for Bragborough Emergency Maternity Home on Tuesdays, and at Watford Court and East Haddon Manor for East Haddon Emergency Maternity Home on Mondays. The following statistics relate to ante-natal clinics upder the control of the County Council. (Figures in respect of evacuee women are included). Ante-natal Clinics. 1942 1943 No. attending for first time . 2,912 2,745 Total ante-natal attendances . 7,856 9,596 No. sent to hospital : For consultation . 114 92 ,, confinement (abnormality) . 212 160 ,, confinement (lack of accommodation) . 1,655 1,455 „ ante-natal treatment . 29 149 ,, ante-natal treatment and confinement. 141 218 ,, ante-natal treatment and miscarriage . 5 2 No. treated on district (confinement) . 622 622 No. treated on district (miscarriage) . 9 14 No. referred to own doctor . 22 23 The total number of women, including evacuees, attending all ante-natal clinics was 3,205 or 73.8 per cent of the total notified births. Cases Terminated. Alive Full Time . Premature . Stillborn, Full Time Premature .. Abortion or miscarriage Left district . Not Pregnant . Not terminated .. Twin birth . Triplets .. Maternal deaths . 1942 1943 2,404 2,339 51 57 42 28 12 6 14 19 132 115 10 21 412 495 29 24 2 — 1 3