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Puerperal Fever.
Nine cases of Puerperal Fever were notified as occurring, as
against 5 last year. Only two of the cases occurred in the
practice of midwives. This complaint had a fatal ending in
two cases.
Erysipelas.
Forty-five cases of Erysipelas were notified, as against
86 last year. Two cases were removed to the Isolation
Hospital.
Cerebo-Spinal Meningitis.
One case ot Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis was notified during
the year, as against 4 last year.
This case occurred in a boy aged 10 months. For about
eleven weeks previous to his admission to a London Hospital,
he was attended by a local medical man, and also as an
out-patient of the Hospital for teething trouble. The case had
a fatal ending.
Typhoid Fever.
A very large decrease in the number of Typhoid Fever
cases occurred, viz., 4, as against 16 last year, 15 in 1912, and
47 in 1911.
In one case the complaint was probably contracted by the
patient eating tainted mussels; in the other three cases the
source of infection could not be traced.
Infantile Summer Diarrhæa.
The number of cases of deaths from Infantile Summer
Diarrhæa remain about the same, viz., 19, as against 14 last
year and 17 in 1912. This is probably due to the cool and wet
conditions which have prevailed during the past three years.
Five of the deaths occurred in Institutions outside the
district.