[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Luton County Borough.

  • Luton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Luton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFIED LIVE BIRTHS AS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENT (Corrected for Inward and Outward Transfers) Year Institutional Domiciliary Grand Total Maternity Hospital Units Private Nursing Homes Total District Mid¬ wives Private Mid¬ wives Doctors and Parents Total 1946 1,153 451 1,604 397 — 95 492 2,096 1947 1,198 455 1,653 571 — 79 650 2,303 1948 1,154 285 1,439 402 — 61 463 1,902 1949 1,151 191 1,342 423 — 56 479 1,821 1950 923 188 1,111 612 — 16 628 1,739 1951 927 157 1,084 652 — 19 671 1,755 DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFIED STILLBIRTHS AS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENT (Corrected for Inward and Outward Transfers) Cause Maternity Hospital Units Private Nursing Home Domiciliary Grand Total Maternal Toxaemia 3 _ 1 4 Foetal malformation 3 1 1 5 Prematurity ... 11 1 3 15 Complications of labour ... 4 — 4 8 Other 9 — 2 11 Total ... 30 2 11 43 OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM (a) Number of cases notified during the year ... ... ... ... 9 (b) Number of cases visited by officers of the Council ... ... Nil (/) Number of cases removed to hospital ... ... ... ... Nil (d) Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided ... ... Nil (e) Number of cases in which vision was impaired ... ... ... Nil