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SIMPLE, CONTINUED, RELAPSING AND
TYPHUS FEVERS.
During 1910, one case of Relapsing (Continued) Fever was
notified in the Borough of Lambeth, but no death was
registered from the disease, as compared with yearly averages
for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish of Lambeth of
25.7 and 1.7 respectively in the Borough of Lambeth.
In London, 16 cases (uncorrected) were notified and 4
deaths (uncorrected) registered from Continued Fever during
1910, giving a case-mortality of 25 per cent. (uncorrected).
No case of Typhus was notified, and no death from the
disease was registered, during 1910, in Lambeth Borough.
3 cases of Typhus were notified in London (no deaths).
PUERPERAL FEVER.
During 1910, in the Borough of Lambeth, 7 deaths were
registered from Puerperal Fever (a disease of child-bed), and
18 cases notified, giving a case-mortality of 38.9 per cent.
11 of the patients (6 from the Inner and 5 from the Outer
Districts) were removed to Hospital.
The annual averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the
Parish of Lambeth are (1) notified cases, 18.9; and (2)
deaths, 11.5; whilst in the Borough of Lambeth during
1909, 16 cases were notified, and 8 deaths registered.
Puerperal Fever is a preventable disease, and is caused
through want of care on the part of the nurse, or the
medical practitioner, attending upon a lying-in woman.
8373 births were registed in the Borough of Lambeth during
1910, and in only 18 cases was Puerperal Fever notified
—a most satisfactory fact to be able to report. In each case
enquiries were made, and the Midwives (when in attendance)