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This most fatal disease also shews a very satisfactory record
during the year, being the lowest since the passing of the
Notification Act of 1889. Six cases were recorded compared
with an annual average of 12.5 cases during the preceding ten
years, the number recorded during each of those years being here
shewn.
Year.
Number of cases of
Puerperal Fever notified
1890 18
1891 12
1892 16
1893 18
1894 10
1895 10
1896 10
1897 7
1898 10
1899 14
1900 6
Annual average for 10 preceding years 12
Local Distribution, &c.—ln so small a number of cases local
distribution is simplified. The cases occurred on the following
dates and in the following places :—
11th June Rollo Street.—(Fatal.)
11th july Duffield Street.
13th „ Grove Mansions. —(Fatal.)
11th September Home Road. —(Fatal.)
12th „ Albany Mansions.—(Fatal.)
24th „ Shelgate Road.
In each case enquiries were made as to the nurses attending
upon the patients, and these were duly cautioned by letter against
attending any midwifery cases for at least six weeks.
An important case occurred in an adjoining district, where
one of the nurses who had attended the fatal case at Rollo Street,