[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Barrow-in-Furness County Borough.

  • Barrow-in-Furness (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Barrow-in-Furness County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not applicable to all cases of tuberculosis. There were 50 males and 11 females on allowances during the past year, and the following grants were made :— Maintenance Discretionary Special Allowances. Allowances. Payments. Total. ;^1813 7 lOd. £64 13 4d. ;^8 10 6d. ;^1886 11 8d. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. (a) Risedale Maternity Hospital. The Municipal Maternity Hospital has again been working to full capacity* but there is still an extreme lack of accommodation for all the cases who wish for an institutional confinement. This has been partly met by the continued use of the emergency Maternity Home at Arnside. The number of bookings is still very high, and plans for increased accommodation have been submitted to the Ministry of Health, but so far the building has not been erected. ' Annual Report, 1944. Number of beds available Total admissions Number of deliveries Number of ante-natal patients treated as in-patients Cases delivered by Midwives Cases delivered by Doctors (a) General Practitioners 30 (b) Obstetrician 32 Cases in which medical aid was summoned (a) General Practitioners 28 (b) Obstetrician 122 Maternal Deaths Infantile Deaths— (a) Stillbirths . 21 (b) Neo-natal deaths 14 (One baby admitted from District). Clinics— Ante-Natal : Number of individuals attended Total attendances made Post-Natal, Gynaecological and Endocrine : Number of individuals attended Total attendances (a) Post-natal 214 (b) Gynaecological 181 (c) Endocrine 14 28 596 508 167 446 62 150 2 738 4581 441 714