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puerperal fever.
42. There were 3 cases of Puerperal Fever, compared with
7 and 3 in the two preceding years. One died.
Besides this death, seven women died of labour and its
sequelae.
Two cases were attended by one midwife. At my request,
she abstained temporarily from her profession, performed
thorough disinfection, and notified all the cases she attended
for a month afterwards.
Cholera.
43. The four cases returned as Cholera were all notified by
one medical man, and would probably be more correctly named
Diarrhoea, or Gastro-Enteritis. None of them died, and none
were of the nature of Asiatic Cholera.
Erysipelas.
44. There were 46 cases of Erysipelas, compared with 53
and 43 in the two preceding years.
Two died, one of whom was over 5 years of age and one
under 5. The first of these, an infant of two months, contracted
the disease shortly after the second visit to the vaccination
station for inspection after vaccination. I have no
doubt that the vaccination was not itself the cause of the
Erysipelas, but any person with sores on the body is liable to
infection by this disease, and it is not unlikely that among the
persons with whom the child came into contact at the vaccinating
station, there was someone suffering from Erysipelas. It
is desirable that vaccination sores should be carefully dressed
with antiseptic precautions, until they heal. Two other infants