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Soiled napkins and clothes should be at once soaked
in water containing a disinfectant, and left there till
they are washed.
11. The mother's or nurse's hands should he always
washed every time they are soiled, and especially
before preparing baby's bottle or any other food. If
you neglect to take this trouble you are risking your
children's lives.
12. Infants, their clothes, utensils, living rooms, and back
yards, must be kept scrupulously clean.
13. All animal and vegetable refuse, waste food, and
dirt of all kinds should be quickly removed from the
house and covered up in the dustpail, and slops
must be immediately emptied down the drains.
(Signed) SIDNEY DAVIES, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.
Erysipelas.
71. There were 83 cases of Erysipelas notified, compared with
98, 58 and 74, in the three preceding years. There were 5 deaths.
The case rate was 0.66, and the death rate 0.04.
Puerperal Fever.
72. There were 12 cases of Puerperal Fever notified, compared
with 11, 2 and 5, in the three preceding years. There were 6
deaths. The case rate was 0.10, and the death rate 0.05, both
rates being above the average of the past ten years. Four cases
were attended in confinement by qualified medical men and eight
by midwives.
73. In only one case was there any ground to suppose that
infection was conveyed by the professional attendant from a
previous case, and here there was an alternate source of infection,
viz., the patient was confined in the same room as a case that