[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontardawe R.D.C.

  • Pontardawe (Wales). Rural District Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontardawe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to Penrhiwtyn Infirmary where there is a labour ward and also an Ante Natal Clinic. This has proved most useful to the district. There is con- siderable difficulty in Clydach in getting suitable means of conveyance to the hospital, and some arrangements should be made to provide an Ambulance where necessary. 7. Mental Hospitals. Mental cases are taken to Bridgend. B. Voluntary Hospitals independent of the Authorities. Surgical cases and non-infectious cases are sent to : 1. Swansea Hospital (5,618 patients, 331 beds). 2. Clydach Hospital. (Beds : 10 male, 10 female, 10 children). X-ray, Massage and Eye Departments. This hospital has done much useful work and it is a boon to the people of Clydach. 22. Factory and Workshop Act. Numerous inspections of Factories and Workshops were made during the year, and all complaints received attention. The number registered under the Act of 1901 is as follows :— Dressmaking Tailoring Millinery Stone-dressing Bootmaking Saddlery Wheelwright and Shoeing Motor Engineering and Cycle Repairing 9 Gas Makers 1 Steel Works I 15 10 0 2 8 1 6 All fairly satisfactory. Nickel Works Sheet Mills Brickmaking Saw Mills ... Watchmakers Joinery Wagon Repairing Bakehouses Hot Water System Fire Clav Works Tinplate Works 1 2 3 1 2 10 1 8 1 1 8 23. MATERNAL MORTALITY. The nximber of women who die in child-birth is relatively small in this country, and it can be said that motherhood here has reached a comparatively high level of safety. The dis- turbing factor, however, is that the mortality rate is much higher than it should be, and that all efforts have so far failed to reduce it, although many of the deaths are preventable. Puerperal mortality accounts for about 10% of the total mortality among women of childbearing age, but although this WOVorUon is sufficiently serious, yet it is small in comparison with the number of deaths from other causes, some of which are preventable.