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[1911

PUERPERAL FEVER.
Fourteen cases of this most fatal of diseases to women were notified during
the year, as contrasted with 20 in 1910, and 14 in 1909. They were also
8 below the corrected average of the preceding ten years. The disease in the
ten years 1891-1900 averaged 29 cases per annum, and in the succeeding
decennium 22. The attacks were in the proportion of 1.76 to every 1,000
registered births, as compared with 2.55 in the preceding ten years.
Hospital Isolation.— 6 cases were attended in hospital, while 8, or 57.2
per cent., remained at home.
Fatality.—It is very regrettable to find that exactly one half of the
patients died, so that the fatality late was 500 per cent. No words can
express the fatal nature of this disease better than the recital of this bald fact.