[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, St Andrews.

  • St. Andrews (Scotland). Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, St Andrews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of attendances. Resident. Non-Resident. (i) Under 1 year, 221 464 (ii) Over 1 year, 38 0 Total, 259 464 Total number of attendances, .. 723 Average number of in-patient day; 3, 37 Average number of out-patient attendances, 16 Food and Milk Supply. On the application of the Health Visitor, the Fife County Council supplied food and milk to 3 nursing mothers and 2 pre- school children. Milk and cod liver oil were given occasionally to necessitous cases by private donation. Infant school children continued to receive a pint of Certified milk daily, the gift of Mrs. Younger of Mount Melville. Provision for Maternity Cases. Private maternity cases are received in the maternity wing of the Memorial Cottage Hos’ ital. which is registered as a Maternity Home under the Midwives and Maternity Homes (Scotland) Act 1927. There are four single-bed wards and a labour ward. The premises are excellently equipped and well maintained. During the year, 21 confinements took place, all of them with medical attendance. Of these, 6 were instrumental deliveries— 3 because of delay in the second stage, 2 because of right occipito posterior presentations and 1 because the patient suffered from a rheumatic condition of the heart. Three of the births were premature. There were no deaths among mothers or infants. There was one still birth. Cases of difficult or dangerous labour occurring among mothers in necessitous circumstances are transferred to the Maternity Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, under the arrangement made by the County Council. Since the closure of the Scores Nursing Home there has been no provision for hospital accommodation of cases of normal labour residing under unsatisfactory or neces- sitous circumstances. There is a definite need for such accom- modation in the Burgh. Cases of puerperal pyrexia and puerperal fever are transferred to Thornton Infectious Diseases Hospital under the County Council scheme. No cases were transferred during the year, but one case of puerperal pyrexia was admitted to Kings Cross Hospital, Dundee.