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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D6604/1
TitleMaternity case registers
Date1934-1984
DescriptionAll registers record the same fields of information:
Number [continuously running from No 1 in 1934 to No 38651 at end 1964, etc], Name and [full] address, Drugs [administered], Age and religion, Date of admission, Date of discharge, Para and maturity [No of weeks pregnant], Ante-natal treatment [booked/not booked], Presentation and position, Onset of pains [date], Rupture of membranes [time], Child born [date], Placenta delivered [time], Perineum [intact/episiotomy], Operation [details], Anaesthetic [details], Attendants at birth: midwife/pupil/doctor [names], Sex [of child], Weight [of child], Remarks, Abnormalities: pains/labour/puerperium

D6604/1/1-19 contain details entered into ready-made volumes. D6604/1/20-29 contain sheets which were subsequently bound together between plates at the end of a calendar year. Only 1983 was split into two volumes.
Extent19 volumes, 10 bundles
LevelSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerby City General Hospital
Access CategoryCLOSED
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FormatDocument
TermMaternity services
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