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mortality for 1908 is 14.3 per cent. 10 cases were notified
during 1902, and 1 death was registered, from Continued Fever,
in the Borough of Lambeth.
In London, 40 cases were notified, and 6 deaths registered,
from Continued Fever, during 1909, giving a case-mortality of
15 per cent, (uncorrected). No case of Typhus was notified
during 1903 in the Borough of Lambeth, but 22 cases were
notified in London, and 3 deaths registered, giving a casemortality
of 13.6 per cent, (uncorrected).
PUERPERAL FEVER.
During 1903, in the Borough of Lambeth, 6 deaths were
registered from Puerperal Fever (a disease of child-bed), and 17
cases notified, giving a case-mortality of 85.3 per cent.
The annual averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish
of Lambeth are (1) notified cases, 18.9; and (2) deaths, 11.5;
whilst, in the Borough of Lambeth during 1902, 17 cases were
notified, and 6 deaths registered.
Puerperal Fever is a preventable disease, and is caused
through want of care on the part of the nurse, or the medical
practitioner, attending upon a lying-in woman. 9,069 births
were registered in the Borough of Lambeth during 1903, and in
only 17 cases was Puerperal Fever notified—a most satisfactory
fact to be able to report. Of the 17 cases notified, 4 were
removed to Hospital. In each case enquiries were made, and
the Midwives (when in attendance) were visited at their homes,
their rooms (or houses), and clothes, disinfected, and their other
cases (being attended at the time) followed up and watched for
periods varying from 2 to 3 weeks each. Four Midwives were