| Description | Maternity register giving the following details; number (this is not a running sequence number, it seems to be a record of the number of children the mother has had), name of mother, age, address, religion, period of gestation, time when first seen and condition of patient, time when labour was stated to have set in, time of completion of the second stage, time of completion of the third stage (given in hours and minutes), duration of labour from time first seen (hours and minutes), sex and condition of child, result to mother, result to child, class of labour, trade of husband and hygienic condition of dwelling. |