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Erysipelas.
92 cases of erysipelas were notified during the year. Four deaths
occurred.
Public Health (Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926.
The Consulting Obstetrician appointed under the above Regulations,
Dr. Malcolm Donaldson, was not called in during the year.
The following is a summary of the cases notified, etc., during the
year:—
Puerperal Puerperal
Fever Pyrexia.
Cases notified 8 24*
Removed to L. C. C. Fever Hospitals 6 2
Treated in other Hospitals 2 20
Treated at home — 2
Specialist called in — —
Deaths 4** if
* Excludes 3 later notified as Puerperal Fever.
** One was not notified; our first intimation was the report of the
deaths.
† Cause of death, "Cardiac Syncope, Lobar Pneumonia, Mitral
Stenosis."
Continued and Typhus Fevers.
No case of continued fever occurred. No case of typhus fever
occurred.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Eight cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever were notified and treated in
hospital.
Seven of the patients received serum treatment and of these five
recovered. One patient died before diagnosis was complete and did not
received serum treatment.