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hospitals; six were patients in local nursing homes, and the remainder
were confined in their own homes. Two of the cases proved
fatal; in each of these a difficult labour at home being followed by
sepsis, for which condition they were removed to hospital. Of the
other cases, of whom eight were admitted to hospital for treatment,
three were suffering from mastitis, three from pyelitis, one each
from influenza, rheumatism, tuberculosis and thrombo-phlebitis,
while the remainder were suffering from uterine infection of varying
degrees of severity.
The Council's provisions for the treatment of these conditions
is to arrange for admission either to the isolation block of Queen
Charlotte's Hospital or to the London County Council North
Western Isolation Hospital; or to arrange for home nursing by
staff of the local nursing association.