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PUERPERAL FEVER.
64. There were 8 cases of puerperal fever notified, compared
with 6, 9, 7, 16, and 2, in the five peceding years.
There were 3 deaths. The case-rate per 1,000 births was
2.78, and the death-rate 1.05, compared with 0 73 and 0 36
in 1912. The London case-rate and death-rate per 1,000
births were 3 16 and 124 respectively.
In the ten years 1891-1900, the case-rate per 1,000 population
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 1906-10
the case rate was 0.05, and the death rate 0.016. There
has been a decided fall in the death-rate from this disease.
Although the apparent fall in the case-rate appears to be
but slight, it is probably just as great as that of the deathrate.
Many cases are now notified which in former years
would have been passed over.
INFLUENZA, BRONCHITIS, PNEUMONIA.
65. Influenza caused 35 deaths, oompared with 29, 36,
39, 19, and 25, in the five preceding years. Bronchitis and
pneumonia caused 253 deaths, compared with 228, 245, 232,
200, and 208, in the five preceding years. The deaths from
these causes under five years were 70, compared with 86,
66, 55, and 70, in the four preceding years. There were
more deaths of persons over five from bronchitis than for
several years past.
TUBERCULOSIS.
66. Deaths. There were 216 deaths from tuberculous