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Puerperal Fever.
Seventeen cases of Puerperal Fever, or 3.7 per 1,000 births,
were notified, of which 10 or 2.1 per 1,000 births, proved fatal.
Eleven of the patients were removed to Fulham Infirmary, and
one to St. George's Hospital.
Erysipelas.
127 persons were certified to be suffering from Erysipelas,
which was the assigned cause of 6 deaths.
Epidcmic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Four cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever were notified, but in
two the diagnosis was not confirmed. Two deaths were ascribed
to the disease of which one is not included with the notified
cases, the nature of the disease not being ascertained before
the autopsy.
In the County of London 85 cases with 10 deaths were
notified, as against 136 cases with 24 deaths in 1907; but
there was no evidence of the spread of the disease from any
of the notified cases.
DEATHS FROM NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Measles.