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57 samples of blood were examined at the Bacteriological
Laboratory during 1912 for the Widal reaction of typhoid,
and of these, 31 (i.e., 54.4 per cent.) gave the re-action.
In so far as typhoid fever is regarded as a sanitary index
of a district, the statistics for the Borough during 1912
are of a satisfactory character.
SIMPLE, CONTINUED, RELAPSING AND
TYPHUS FEVERS.
During 1912, 1 case of continued fever was notified,
and 1 death from this disease was registered, in the
Borough. The annual averages for continued fever for
the decennia 1902-11 are (1) notified cases 3.7, and (2)
deaths 0.4.
No case of typhus was notified, and no death from the
disease was registered, during 1912, in the Borough. One
case of typhus has been notified in the Borough during the
decennium 1901-10.
PUEPERAL FEVER.
During 1912, in the Borough, 14 deaths were registered
from puerperal fever (a disease of child-bed), and
24 cases notified, giving a case-mortality of 58.3 per cent.
13 of the patients were removed to hospital, non-pauper as
well as pauper cases being received for treatment and
isolation by the new Metropolitan Asylums (Puerperal
Fever) Order, 1912 (August 20th).
The annual averages for the two decennia 1891-1900
(Parish) and 1902-1911 (Borough) are respectively (1)
notified cases, 18.1 and 17.0 and (2) deaths 12.0 and 7.8.
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. 8,168