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sufferers were removed to the infirmary and two were
treated at home. The registered cause of death in the
fatal case was "Puerperal Peritonitis." Twelve
women died from one or other of the diseases or
accidents incidental to childbirth. Of these, seven
died from hœmorrhage, two from septicaemia after
miscarriage, and one from exhaustion after the operation
of version, necessitated by a hydrocephalic infant;
two other women died from intercurrent disease
shortly after delivery.
ERYSIPELAS AND PUERPERAL FEVER.
A communication was received in September from
the Battersea Borough Council enclosing a copy of a
letter which had been sent by that authority to the
Local Government Board urging that the Metropolitan
Asylums Board should be called upon to receive cases
of Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever on conditions similar
to those attaching to other infectious diseases such as
small-pox and diphtheria etc.
I advised the committee to which this communication
was referred, that cases of these diseases would be best
treated in general hospitals should they require
removal; moreover as the infectivity of both these
diseases is low (except under certain well known conditions)
no danger to the public would be incurred by
such cases being kept at home.
The Council, upon the recommendation of the
Public Health Committee decided to take no action.
CANCER.
The various forms of cancerous disease caused 114