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It is satisfactory to note that the mortality among puerperal
women, both from puerperal sepsis and from accidents at childbirth,
is steadily decreasing.
PHTHISIS (CONSUMPTION).

The 39 cases of Consumption notified embraced 18 which were
voluntarily notified and 21 notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908.
In 10 cases of single lodgers in the Borough, who were notified
under the Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations of 1908, it was
impossible to ascertain the facts as to family history, occupation, etc.,
for the patients had been removed to the Infirmary before the notification
was received. In the 29 other cases a reference to the enquiry
forms discloses the following facts There was no history of Consumption
in parents or other relatives in 10 instances; in 4 instances
parents were alleged to have died from bronchitis and asthma, and
these cases may conceivably have been phthisical; and in the remaining
cases there was a family history of Phthisis. The dwellings
occupied by the sufferers were, with 4 exceptions, fairly satisfactory,
in a sanitary sense, and the occupations of the notified cases embraced
a great variety of employment, which was, with the exception of 2
bootmakers, different in every case. In several cases want of
sufficient and suitable food and exposure to wet and cold predisposed
to the infection.
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