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By permission of the Public Health Committee
specimens of suspected tubercular sputum may, at the
instance of qualified medical practitioners, be submitted
for bacteriological examination at the public expense.
Under this regulation 15 samples were forwarded
during the year but upon examination by the Clinical
Research Association a positive result was obtained in
only two instances.
All these examinations were made at the request of
the medical officers of the Jewish Board of Guardians.
DISEASES OF PARTURITION.
Five women were notified as suffering from Puerperal
Fever; two were treated at home and three in
the Infirmary. There were four deaths; and in
addition sixteen women died from diseases and
accidents incidental to or immediately following childbirth.
These were:—
Caesarian Section necessitated by a contracted pelvis
and followed by peritonitis, one; Rupture of tubal
pregnancy, one; Rupture of uterus, two; Tear of neck
of womb, one; Rupture of perineum, one; Gangrene
of vulva, one; Placenta prsevia, one; Haemorrhage,
three; Heart disease, one; Pneumonia, two; Nephritis,
one; Embolism, one.
MID WIVES.
During the year the Central Midwives Board issued
a new set of rules superseding those already in force.
The alterations made provide for a more complete
qualifying examination, fuller instructions as to
methods; stringent enquiry in to alleged cases of mala-