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The number of notifications and deaths in previous years are
appended.

This year both the number of deaths and notifications are less
than in 1910.
In 1911 there were registered in the district 8441 births, and in
only four cases were the mothers notified to be in peril owing to
puerperal fever.
It may, therefore, be confidently asserted that the work of
attending women in their confinements is, on the whole, carried
out extremely well in Finsbury.
The four cases in the present year were attended—two by
student midwives of the Royal Free Hospital, one by a registered
midwife, and one by a medical student from St. Bartholomew's
Hospital.
The associated causes were stated to be prolonged labour (2),
retained portions of the afterbirth (1), and in one instance
presumed infection from a previous case attended by a student
from St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Every case was made the subject of a special enquiry by the
Lady Sanitary Inspector, the premises were visited and disinfected
; the sanitary defects were ascertained and made the subject
of subsequent notice for amendment.