[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1947
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    Maternity Bundles.—Bundles or part bundles to the number of 1,282 were supplied in respect of which part payment received amounted to £'37 3s. lOd. MIDWIVES (SCOTLAND) ACTS. During 1947 there was an increase of 12 in the number of midwives who notified their intention to practise, so that there are now 165 on the register. This increase is due to an increase in the number of Municipal Midwives and in County Midwives attending Glasgow cases at the boundary. The number of those entitled to registration by examination is 157, while the number of those registered as having been in practice in 1914 is now 5. There are also 3 with other recognised qualifications. The number who notified their intention to practise for the first time was 41. During the year there were 2,426 occasions on which medical help was called by midwives, which represents 35*2 per cent, of the total births occurring in the practice of midwives. Details of the nature of emergency are not given this year, but the following indicates the period during which medical assistance was called :— 1944. 1945. In all cases in which a woman during pregnancy, labour, or lying-in appears 1946. 1947. to be dying or is dead Pregnancy.—In cases of a pregnant woman where there is any abnormality or complication Labour.—In the case of a woman in labour at or near term, where there is 71 35 36 58 any abnormality or complication Lying-in.—In the case of a lying-in woman, when there is any abnormality 1,088 985 1,566 1,723 or complication The Child.—In the child, when there is 158 189 326 295 any abnommality of complication ... 206 180 282 348 Cannot be classified — — 3 2 Total 1,523 1,389 2,213 2,426 Fees to doctors attending emergency cases amounted to £1,835 19s. and during the year £1,272 6s. 2d. was recovered and £6 6s. withdrawn from medical practitioner's accounts.