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In the following table the cases are classified according to the manner in
which the patients were attended in their confinements : —
Confinement attended by
No. of casei of
Puerperal Fever.
Total number of
births notified.
No. of cases per
1000 births.
Doctors
7
1407
5
Midwives from U.C.II.
0
186
0
Private Midwives
3
956
3.1
Medical Students
1
1170
0.8
In Hospital
2
—
—
No Attendance
1
-
-
The cases were treated as follows :—
At home 6
In M.A.B. hospitals 2
In other hospitals 6
TUBERCULOSIS.
Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, medical
practitioners are required to notify every case of all forms of tuberculosis
unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the case has already
been previously notified. Such notifications are made on " Form A," except
in the case of the notification of school children by school medical inspectors,
which is made on "Form B." "Form C" is used for the notification of
admission to Poor Law Institutions and Sanatoria of previously notified cases,
and these notifications should be sent to this authority whenever a St.
Pancras case is admitted to any such institution. " Form D" is used for
the notification of discharge from Poor Law Institutions and Sanatoria of
previously notified cases, and these notifications should be sent to this
authority whenever a case is discharged to a St. Pancras address.
The total number of notifications of cases of tuberculosis received during
1915 (Forms A, B, C and D), including duplicate notification was 1,982
(1817 pulmonary: 165 non-pulmonary).
917 notifications (781 pulmonary, 136 non-pulmonary) were received
during the year on forms A and B. Of these 117 (111 pulmonary, 6 nonpulmonary)
had been notified to this authority before; so that the number
of primary notifications received on forms A and B was 800 (670 pulmonary,
130 non-pulmonary).
1065 notifications (1036 pulmonary, 29 non-pulmonary) were received on
forms C and D. Of these 283 (263 pulmonary, 20 non-pulmonary) were in
respect of cases which had not been notified previously to this authority.
The total number of primary notifications received during the year was,
therefore, 1,083 (933 pulmonary, 150 non-pulmonary).
In the previous year (1914) the number of primary notifications received
was 1,014 (893 pulmonary, 121 non-pulmonary).
In the following table the notifications received are set out in the form
suggested by the Local Government Board.