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9. BEDS FOR MATERNITY CASES AND NUMBER OF LABOUR
The following table gives an dea of the number of beds available for maternity cases and the number of labour
cases attended to in each province during the year 1937.
| Province. | General Hospitals. | Women's Hospitals. | Maternity Homes. | ||||||
| No. of beds available for maternity cases. |
No. of delivery cases attended to. |
No. of beds available for maternity cases. |
No. of delivery cases attended to. |
No. of beds available for maternity cases. |
No. of delivery cases attended to. |
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| Normal. | Abnormal. | Normal. | Abnormal. | Normal. | Abnormal. | ||||
| Madras | 609 | 10,626 | 3,012 | 838 | 15,117 | 7,178 | 93 | 1,389 | 205 |
| Bombay | 413 | 11,471 | 1,579 | 836 | 4,416 | 1,434 | 1,386 | 17,482 | 1,982 |
| Bengal | 333 | 7,525 | 1,194 | 369 | 8,179 | 2,875 | 119 | 6,132 | 1,810 |
| United Provinces. | 40 | 881 | 251 | 388 | 3,806 | 2,937 | 45 | 194 | 19 |
| Punjab | 113 | 3,403 | 972 | 343 | 3,403 | 1,659 | 46 | 1,653 | 119 |
| Central Provinces and Berar. | 144 | 2,297 | 584 | 264 | 2,218 | 668 | 182 | 2,086 | 54 |
| Bihar | 92 | *6,798 | *2,763 | 143 | |||||
| Assam | 47 | 510 | 165 | 64 | 99 | 50 | 9 | † | † |
| Sind | Not fixed. | 129 | 35 | 174 | 2,075 | 424 | 292 | 773 | 102 |
| Orissa | 33 | ‡1,384 | ‡190 | 19 | |||||
| Delhi | 4 | 159 | *2,111 | *1,052 | 2 | ||||
| North-West Frontier Pro- vince. |
99 | ‡1,070 | ‡400 | 165 | |||||
| Baluchistan | 8 | 208 | 183 | ||||||
| Ajmer-Merwara | 9 | 20 | 11 | 261 | 184 | 26 | 393 | 106 | |
| Coorg | 21 | 395 | 24 | ||||||
| * Number of labour cases attended to in all classes of hospitals and dispensaries. | |||||||||
| † The Sylhet Maternity Home has been opened very recently. | |||||||||
| ‡ Separate figures not given. | |||||||||