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Enteric Fever.
Five cases were notified during the year,
compared with 11 last year and no deaths occurred.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Five cases were notified during the year. Of
the 5 cases four were in males and one in a
female. The ages of notified patients varied from
1 year to 39 years.
Four of the cases proved fatal.
Puerperal Fever.
Eleven cases, the same as in 1932, were
notified and there were four deaths from puerperal
sepsis. The incidence in 1933 was equivalent to
5.49 per thousand of the registered births (live
and stillbirths). The incidence for England and
Wales was equal to 3.5 per thousand.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Puerperal Pyrexia is defined in the Public
Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations of 1926 as "any
febrile condition, other than a condition which is
required to be notified under the Infectious
Diseases (Notification) Acts, occurring in a woman
within twenty-one days after child-birth or miscarriage
in which a temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit
(38° Centigrade) or more has been sustained during
a period of 24 hours or has recurred during that
period."
Twenty-seven cases were notified during 1933
as compared with 37 during 1932. In addition
four cases were subsequently notified as Puerperal
Fever. The incidence per thousand births (live
and stillbirths) was equivalent to 13.5 while that
for England and Wales was equal to 9.6.