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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1599 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Midwife's case registers of Martha Corner (nee Fryatt) of Spennymoor

Covering Dates: 1926-1959

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan:

13 August 2007 Acc: 3393(D)

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 1599/1

Register of cases, under the Midwives Acts, kept by Martha Fryatt, no. 67.742, 10 Wood Street, Middlestone Moor, Spennymoor, 15 April 1926 - 19 April 1941. The volume gives the expected date of confinement, name and address of patient, number of previous labours or miscarriages, age of the patient, date and hour of midwife's arrival, date and hour of the child's birth, the presentation of the child, the duration of the stages of labour, any complications, sex of the child, whether the child was stillborn, whether the child was premature, the name of any doctor in attendance, the date of the midwife's last visit, the condition of the mother, the condition of the child, whether the child was breast fed, and any comments, such as details of drugs administered, subsequent death of child and so on
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: D/X 1599/2

Register of cases, under the Midwives Acts , kept by Martha Fryatt, 10, Wood Street, Middlestone Moor, Spennymoor, 8 April 1925 - 29 December 1946, 2 April 1959 The volume gives the expected date of confinement, name and address of patient, number of previous labours or miscarriages, age of the patient, date and hour of midwife's arrival, date and hour of the child's birth, the presentation of the child, the duration of the stages of labour, any complications, sex of the child, whether the child was stillborn, whether the child was premature, the name of any doctor in attendance, the date of the midwife's last visit, the condition of the mother, the condition of the child, whether the child was breast fed, and any comments, such as details of drugs administered, subsequent death of child and so on
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: D/X 1599/3

Register of cases, under the Midwives Acts, kept by M. Corner, nee Fryatt, 1, Durham Road, Binchester Moor, Spennymoor, 3 January 1947 - 7 November 1957 The volume gives the expected date of confinement, name and address of patient, number of previous labours or miscarriages, age of the patient, date and hour of midwife's arrival, date and hour of the child's birth, the presentation of the child, the duration of the stages of labour, any complications, sex of the child, whether the child was stillborn, whether the child was premature, the name of any doctor in attendance, the date of the midwife's last visit, the condition of the mother, the condition of the child, whether the child was breast fed, and any comments, such as details of drugs administered, subsequent death of child and so on
(1 volume, card bound)



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