Medical report : 1947 / Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital.

  • Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:
1947
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Credit: Medical report : 1947 / Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ante-natal cases are admitted to the Hospital at the request of the medical practitioners in the city area, from Local Authority Clinics, from the Hospital Ante-natal Clinic, and from certain outlying areas which lack facilities for hospital treatment. Emergency cases are referred to the Hospital by practitioners in the city area, in outlying districts without adequate hospital facilities, and by the Hospital out-door service. In all, 1,245 patients (26*9 per cent, of the total admissions) were referred from areas outwith the city. The following are some particulars of the Hospital out-door service, which attended 2,795 women in their own homes during 1947 :—- Total visits paid .. . . . . . . .. 47,753 Abnormal cases . . . . . . .. . . 138 Infants born .. .. .. . . . . 2,795 Infants born alive . . . . . . . . . . 2,742 Maternal deaths .. . . . . . . .. 1 For purposes of this Report the in-door cases have, as in previous « years, been divided into two categories :— Category A.—Refers to patients who have paid at least two visits to the Hospital Ante-natal Clinic before admission ; while all other patients are placed in Category B. Of the 4,624 patients admitted to this Hospital during 1947, 2,199 (47-5 per cent.) belonged to Category A ; and 2,425 (52-5 per cent.) to Category B. The total number of abnormal cases (including 1,626 ante-natal cases) was 3,423 (or 74*0 per cent, of all admissions). The high incidence of abnormal cases is explained partly by the fact that the Hospital serves a large industrial area where the incidence of rickets, malnutrition and overcrowding is high, and partly by the fact that abnormal cases only are admitted from some of the outlying areas. The special out-patient clinic for patients suffering from specific diseases has been discontinued since September, 1939, and such patients are now treated at a Local Authority Clinic. The efficient blood transfusion service, initiated by the Hospital in 1935, is now maintained in collaboration with the West of Scotland Blood Transfusion Service. Of the 905 patients examined in the X-ray Department during the year, 455 were resident in the Hospital and 450 were out-patients. The work of the Dietetic Department has continued as in past years. Miss Lillias Forrest was in charge and resigned in May, 1947, being succeeded by Miss Margaret Y. R. Martin.