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tutions, as an example the Mary J. Johnston Hospital, where 
Filipino women learned that hospitalization was a good thing 
for them, be they in normal or abnormal labor. In January, 
1911, or a little over four years ago, the obstetrical department 
was transferred from the small room in Saint Paul’s Hospital 
to floor 11 of the Philippine General Hospital, where we had 
better facilities for obstetrical work of all kinds. This transfer 
of the maternity department to a modern and well-equipped 
institution contributed very considerably toward attracting 
women to be subjected to hospital treatment, not only because 
they saw that the new maternity ward was excellent in the 
matters of hygiene and afforded an ample space for a large 
number of patients, but also, because they saw that we had 
all the facilities that were necessary, especially in cases needing 
intervention. As a result of all these influences that contrib- 
uted to the education of the Filipino women, we have been 
able to increase the number of confinement cases with medical 
assistance in the city of Manila from 5 per cent to 70 per cent. 
The department of obstetrics was organized in July, 1907, 
in Saint Paul’s Hospital, and from that time to December, 1914— 
that is, a period of seven years and a half—we have had 3,707 
cases of deliveries and puerperium and 171 abortions, with the 
complications, deaths, and operations shown in Table II. 
TABLE II.—Classification of 3,707 delivery and puerperal cases from 
July, 1907, to December, 1914. 







= 
Cases. | 
er 
Hospital.| Outside.| Total. |Per cent. 
Bishe aes = = 
Complications: 
Placenta previa... eere= econ os Soe cee ee ere e 125 15 140 4 
Helampsia'=2-> Sereno een ee ee eee 125 8 39 1 
Puerperalintection ose... e passe oes ee aes | 115 4 119 3 
Operations: 
MOrCep Si Sos oo eens an ack swt coco onc ouc ee eocaeees 158 69 227 6 
Podaliciversionscsc2- os 5. Sees oS Re See ees 121 17 138 | 3 
Wimbryotomy, <-.<=- 5s eee cece eee ote aeenenes pbyy ease eae A eee 
Csssarean\section) 9 9c soe. ce sene seen eeeeenes 1G) eee 916 ann sone 
Laparotomies for abdominal pregnancy--_-_-.-.-------|---.------|--------_- A eee ~ 
Maternal deaths: | 
Placenta preevie ooeee wo oo See ace Cee eee ene ee Renee a ee ee 86 25 
LOE) Leer ae retine moan Seema enter aaeemedl Rana ned Ea ae 18 | 45 | 
Puerperal infection sce - eee e eee ac cere a oe ree | eee eee sere | 19 | 15 
Obhericauses!2 i222 ke soec acd eteoe wee see poe enone ~--~-=~---|~=-------- ol (Sees 
Tabet a NAEe SA Pee Sed See. ed eee |e Bees Soe 187 | a | 




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