Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation.

  • Durban (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1964]
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Credit: Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNAL HEALTH Ante-Natal Clinics The Department provides an ante-natal service for expectant mothers of all races who do not propose to have a medical practitioner in attendance at the time of the confinement., The attendances at the European and Coloured sessions were low as most mothers preferred to he admitted to hospital or have a district nurse in attendance at the time of the confinement. The Bantu sessions which were held at kwaMashu were discontinued, when the two Bantu nurses practising midwifery ceased to practise privately. Set out below are details of City Health Department Clinics and attendances thereat. Number of Ante-natal Clinics Total attendances of expectant mothers Number of Ante-natal Visits Number of Post-natal Visits E C B A Total 12 12 5 95 122 69 25 15 2*554 2,463 77 8 649 552 1,066 - 8 __ 2 850 860 The City Council does not provide any accommodation for maternity cases nor does it provide a district midwifery service 9 but the following Provincial Hospitals and Private Nursing Homes have services as set out hereunder s- Europeans Addington Hospital (Provincial) and the Mothers'® Hospital include a District Midwifery Service. Maternity cases are accepted at St. Augustine's Hospital and Parklands Nursing Home. Coloureds Addington and McCord Zulu Hospital include a District Midwifery Service. St. Aldan's Hospital accepts maternity cases. Bantus King Edward VIII and McCord's Zulu Hospitals include a District Midwifery Service. The Polyclinic,, kwaMashu (Provincial) conducts a District Midwifery Service. Supervision of Midwives A Health Visitor supervises the work of the listed Midwives in private practice and investigates any case of stillbirth, puerperal sepsis or ophthalmia neonatorum which might occur in their practices. The registered and uncertificated European and Coloured Midwives have their equipment and registers examined every three months whilst the uncertificated practising Asiatic Midwives* equipment is examined each month. Set out below are particulars regarding midwives (practising privately in Durban) on the list of this local authority, together with details of the number of confinements attended by mid¬ wives only, including the midwives in the employ of the Provincial Administration. 57.