| Description Of Item | The volume gives the patient's name in a column on the left of the page. A number of headings are given in the book although not all of them are used for each patient and fewer headings are used later in the volume. The headings at the beginning of the volume are: last appearance of catamenia and quickening; former miscarriages and the period; under the overall heading of duration of labour - false pains, commencement of labour, complete dilation of uterus, delivery of child, delivery of placenta, discharge of liquor amnii, 1st stage, 2nd stage, 3rd stage, total labour (time); under the overall heading of placenta - haemorrhage quantity and period of labour, cause of retained placenta and how delivered; under the overall heading of child - cord round the neck, still born and recovered, cried before the birth of shoulders; under overall heading of plurality - sex, alive or dead, presentation, weight, interval of delivery; and remarks. Later in the volume these headings change to: made first examination at what hour; diameter of os uteri at first examination; commencement of pains; what pregnancy (number); duration of stages; presentation; when delivered; sex; whether alive or dead; length of the cord; and weight of the child and placenta. |