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89 [1900
It will be noticed that the fatality varied from 24.2 per cent. to 54.5 per cent.
in the ten years. Great as this fatality is, it is small, indeed, when compared with
that which obtained in the Metropolis during the nine years 1891-9, during which
period out of 2,558 cases 2,138 died, or translating it into percentages, out of every
100 puerperal fever cases 83.6 died. Such a fatality is truly staggering, and, therefore
it behoves every person, whether accoucheur, midwife or nurse, whose duty it
is to attend on women in child-bed to adopt every precaution that forethought can
. prompt, or that science has made available.