[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Luton County Borough.

  • Luton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Luton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFIED LIVE BIRTHS AS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENT (Corrected for Inward and Outward Transfers) Year Institutional Domiciliary Grand Total Maternity Hospital Units Private Nursing Homes Total District Mid¬ wives Private Mid¬ wives Doctors and Parents Total 1953 852 166 1,018 585 __ 6 591 1,609 1954 832 156 988 567 — 5 572 1,560 1955 843 177 1,020 584 — 5 589 1,609 1956 915 173 1,088 665 — 5 670 1,758 1957 994 164 1,158 747 —— 9 756 1,914 1958 1144 167 1,311 842 1 1 5 847 2,158 DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFIED STILLBIRTHS AS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENT (Corrected for Inward and Outward Transfers) Cause Maternity Hospital Units Private Nursing Home Domiciliary Grand Total Maternal Toxaemia ... 6 — — 6 Foetal malformation ... 6 — 1 7 Prematurity ... 3 —■ — 3 Complications of labour 5 -— 3 8 Accidental haemorrhage 3 3 -— 6 Other ... 2 — —_ 2 Unknown causes 8 1 3 12 Total 33 4 7 44 OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM (i) Total number of cases notified during the year Nil (ii) Number of cases in which:—- (a) Vision lost Nil (b) Vision impaired Nil (c) Treatment continuing at end of year Nil