[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

  • Wakefield (England). City Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    confinements 130 were attended by doctors and 364 by midwives. (Births are given as attended by doctors when doctors were booked for the confinement, and by midwives when midwives only were booked, irrespective of whether doctors were called in by midwives under the rules of the Central Midwives Board). The institution births include 582 in the Maternity Hospital, 18 in the County White Rose Hospital, 68 in private maternity homes, 1 in the Municipal Infectious Diseases Hospital, and 1 in the West Riding Mental Hospital. Of the institution confine¬ ments, 523 were attended by midwives and 147 by doctors. Of the registered births 10 (1.1 per cent.) were not notified compared with 2.2 per cent, in 1937 and 2.7 per cent, in 1936. 58 (4.9 per cent.) of the notified births were still-births.