| Description | Recording:
The patient's name and address, due date, number of previous pregnancies, time of midwife's arrival, drugs administered;
Baby's time of birth, sex, weight, whether alive or dead, names of others present at the labour, date of transfer to health visitor. Also including notes on complications during birth, condition of mother and baby afterwards and whether breast- or bottle-fed.
Any entry in these books less than 100 years old will not be made available for public consultation. |