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In the 144 "emergency" cases at Mayday Hospital, there
were 13 cases of pyrexia and no deaths without a rise of temperature.
The morbidity rate for Mayday Hospital "emergency" cases
was 9.0 per cent.
The Strassburg Convention standard of pyrexia as adopted by
the Ministry of Health has been used, namely, "a temperature
of 100.4 degrees F. or more, sustained during a period of 24 hours
or recurring during that period."
Puerperal Fever.
28 cases of puerperal fever were admitted after delivery to the
Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit (18 cases) or to the
Isolation Wards at Mayday Hospital (10 cases) including 4 cases
delivered at Mayday Hospital and 2 cases delivered at St. Mary's
Maternity Hospital.
One case (No. BH/116) died of Broncho-pneumonia caused
by a fracture of the base of the skull which brought on premature
labour (not a maternal death).
7 of the other 27 patients died, a mortality of 25.9 per cent.
No. of cases admitted to Service's beds as Puerperal Fever per se... 22
No. of deaths in admissions 6
Mortality 27.3
No. of cases delivered in Service's beds and transferred to isolation
beds with Puerperal Fever 5
No. of deaths in these cases 1
Mortality 20%
Mortality
Cases. Deaths. Rate.
Source of the Cases (with mortality rates)—
From Maydav Hospital—Booked cases 2 — —
,, ,, „ Emergency cases.. 2 — —
From St. Mary's Maternity Hospital—
Booked cases 2 1 50%
From other Hospitals— (1) (1) (Fractured
skull).
From Private Doctors—delivered in Nursing
Homes 3 1 33.3%
From Private Doctors—delivered at home. 18 5 27.8%
Hay of Admission after Labour—
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th After
-144332 — 4 — 7
24 cases followed labour with 6 deaths (25.0%)
3 cases followed abortion with 1 death (33.3%)