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In 1926 the number of notified cases of this disease in England
and Wales was 2,273, and in London 230.
Puerperal Fever.
There were 12 cases of Puerperal Fever notified in Battersea
during 1926, as compared with 6 cases in 1925 and 15 cases in 1924.
There were 3 deaths from the disease. The number of cases per
1,000 births was 4.04, as compared with 1.88 in 1925. The notified
cases were distributed as follows:—East Battersea, 7 ; North
West Battersea, 4 ; South West Battersea, 1.
The case mortality was 25.0 per cent., and the death-rate per
1,000 births was 1.01.
Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926.
These Regulations which were issued by the Ministry of
Health and came into force on the 1st October, 1926, prescribe
the form in which medical practitioners are required to notify
cases of Puerperal Fever and also of Puerperal Pyrexia.
Puerperal Pyrexia is defined in the Regulations as any febrile
condition (other than puerperal fever) which is required to be
notified under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Acts occurring
in a woman within 21 days after child-birth or miscarriage in
which a temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit has been sustained
during a period of 24 hours or has recurred during that period.
The Council are required to enforce and administer the Regulations
and to cause to be sent to all medical practitioners resident
or practising in the Borough notice of the Regulations and of the
duties imposed upon them. A supply of the prescribed forms
of notification is also required to be sent to each medical practitioner
and the Medical Officer of Health is required by the Regulations
to forward a copy of every notification received by him to
the County Medical Officer within 24 hours of receipt and to the
.Metropolitan Asylums Board within 12 hours.