View report page

Battersea, attended upon another woman in her confinement
notwithstanding that she had been duly cautioned by letter against
doing so. This second case also terminated fatally and, as the
result of the Coroner's inquiry, the woman was charged with
manslaughter.
Hospital Treatment and Mortality. —Three of the cases notified
were removed to hospital, where one died, and the remainder
treated at home were all fatal.
The proportion of Puerperal Fever cases to the number of
births occurring during the year was equal to 0.11 per cent.
Continued Fever.
One notification of Continued Fever was received in January
from Totteridge Road. The patient was treated at home and
eventually recovered. This disease is a kind of Low Fever and
is of doubtful cause and origin.
Cholera.
The term Cholera, as understood in regard to notification,
relates only to Asiatic Cholera, of which there have been no
cases, nor any great danger of invasion for many years.
English Cholera, which is certainly of a specific character,
frequently occurs during the summer months and has done so in
Battersea during the past year, but this is only a synonym of
Diarrhoea or Epidemic Enteritis.
Bubonic Plague.
During the year under report this country has been seriously
threatened by plague, a number of imported cases occurring in
August and on subsequent occasions. The first cases were
discovered in Glasgow, which may be regarded as the chief