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Puerperal Fever.
There were 10 cases of puerperal fever notified during 1935.
Of these cases 2 occurred in a hospital, the remaining 8 patients
were removed from their own homes to hospital for treatment.
No evidence could be obtained to associate this disease with cases
of sore throat or scarlet fever among persons living in the homes
of the patients. None of the notified cases of this disease proved
fatal.
The Registrar General records 10 deaths from puerperal causes
during the year, 6 from puerperal sepsis and 4 from other puerperal
causes. The death rate from this disease per 1,000 total births was
therefore 3.07 as compared with 3.93 for England and Wales.
It is appropriate to state that the Council recently approved
the issue of Anti-Streptococcic Serum for prophylactic and treatment
purposes which is available to general practitioners free on
application to the Health Department.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Thirty-three cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified during
the year. Twenty-six of these notifications referred to patients
confined in hospitals. Of the 7 cases confined at home 2 were
removed to hospital for treatment. Three of the notified cases
proved fatal.
The services of the Council's Consultant Obstetrician were
utilised by general practitioners during the year for one case of
puerperal fever and one case of puerperal pyrexia, as well as for
one case of difficult midwifery which was not subsequently notified
as either puerperal fever or puerperal pyrexia.
Other Notifiable Diseases.
No cases of malaria, anthrax, glanders, continued fever, or
typhus fever were notified during the year 1935.