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Disinfection and isolation have not been made compulsory,
though probably both will be desirable when more knowledge
has been obtained of the infection.
Puerperal Fever.
64. There were 16 cases of Puerperal Fever notified,
compared with 8, 6, 6, 9, and 7, in the five preceding years.
There were 3 deaths. The case-rate was 0.13, and the
death-rate 0.02. The London case-rate was 0.07, and the
death-rate in 1910, 0.03.
In the ten years 1891-1900, the case-rate was 0.07, and
the death-rate 0.03. In 1901-5 the case-rate was 0.06,
and the death-rate 0.03, and in 1906-10 the case-rate was
0.05 and the death-rate 0.016. Thus in the past five years
the death-rate has fallen to nearly one-half what it was
in the previous quinquennium, and the case-rate has been
reduced. The Midwives Act was passed in 1902, and the
Home for Mothers and Babies was established in Woolwich
in 1905.
Influenza, Bronchitis, Pneumonia.
65. Influenza caused 19 deaths, compared with 33, 30, 29,
36, and 39, in the five preceding years. Bronchitis and
Pneumonia caused 200 deaths, compared with 265, 298, 228,
245, and 232, in the five preceding years. The deaths from
these causes under five years were 55, compared with 81,
86, and 66, in the three preceding years.
Tuberculosis.
66. Deaths. There were 200 deaths from Tuberculous
disease, giving a death-rate of 1 65, compared with 1.71,
1.65, 1.80, 1.68, and 1.46, in the five preceding years.