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MORBIDITY LIST.

MORTALITY.

INABILITY TO NURSE.

Othf.h Maternity Hospitals, Salvation Army Maternity Home, Wellington. Visited 13th May. The Home has been moved to a building in Kensington Street, which has been added to in accordance with the advice of the Department, and is now a very suitable place—spacious, bright, and well ventilated. 'I here is accommodation for 26 girls. There were 23 in at the time of my visit, and 11 babies. One mother still in bed in the hospital ward. The children, with the exception of one, all seemed very well. They were all outside on a balcony. The Home has been very well furnished with up-to-date labour and hospital lieds made in the Dominion; the walls papered with sanitary paper. The quarters for the officers, which were very uncomfortable in the old Home, are now all that can be desired. Salvation Army Home, Auckland. Visited 30th January, 1914. The new Home, the plans for which were submitted to the Department, is a very great improvement, and the work should be carried on in a much more satisfactory way than was possible before. There were 16 girls and 12 babies in. Everything was in excellent order.

it, 'ay o: 'ccurrences o: 'emperature.) Temp, for at least Two Consecuti/e Days. d I ■ s Causes. Days. 100 to 100-8 .. L8 4346 2 1 died of pelvic and lung tuberculosis ; 3 phthisis ; 3 sapreemia ; 1 syphilis ; 1 gonorrhoea. 2 4 1111 5 3 influenza ; 2 chronic cystitis ; several enlarged breasts; 2 offensive lochia ; I bronchitis ; 2 albuminuria. 1 3 I puerperal insanity (died). 3 3.. 1 I confined outside, admitted to isolation as septic. infection due to ill treatment by husband, died ; 1 acute gonorrhoea. (I.. 100-8 to 102 .. 12 1 1 102 to 103 .. Over 103 9 8 3 .. 1 .. 3 3

No. Remadts. Maternal Infantile Still-births, full term 5 12 12 1 advanced phthisis ; 2 placenta pravia : I sepsis : 1 puerperal insanity (had been insane before). 7 prematurity ; 1 congenital cardiac disease ; 1 stenosis of colon and rectum ; 1 exomphalos ; 1 haemorrhage from mouth and rectum ; I premature twins. 1 anencephalus ; 2 accidental haemorrhage : 1 pressure of cord over shoulder in large child. 3 triplets ; 2 twins ; 2 owing to ante-partum haemorrhage ; 1 placenta previa ; 1 macerated ; 2 probably syphilitic. Premature .. 13 Macerated II

No. Remarks. !ompletc 'artial 26 114 2 mental ; 2 inverted nipples ; one very stout with no breast tissue ; one acute rheumatism and debility ; 2 phthisis ; 15 albuminuria : several general debility and anaemia ; mastitis ; Graves' disease and oedema of the breast. 1 mental; 1 sepsis; others debilitated and anremia women with insufficient milk, requiring to be supplemented. It is noteworthy that a large number of these women were Dunedin patients. In Auckland, out of 176 patients, there were only 5 completely unable to nurse and 6 partially. In Christchurch, out of 252 cases, only 5 with complete inability and 36 partially. In Wellington 6 out of 212 with complete inability and 14 with; while in Dunedin 10 out of 163 patients could not nurse at all, and 58 were partially unable.