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Puerperal Fever.
The cases numbered 10 and of these 4 died. All the cases
were treated in Hospital.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
The notifications received for this disease numbered 14, no
deaths occurring. Twelve were treated in hospital.
Preventive Methods Undertaken to Control the Spread
of Infectious Disease.
On receipt of the notification of a case the patient is at once
removed to Hospital, if this is desired or necessary, and the room
previously occupied and its contents are disinfected. Library
books, if present, are removed for disinfection. Whether the
patient be removed to Hospital or not, the Sanitary Inspector at
once calls and obtains all particulars of the case and endeavours
to trace the source of infection. He also leaves a printed form
giving full instructions as to isolation, etc., and the precautions
which should be adopted to prevent the spread of infection. Information
is obtained as to the Day and Sunday schools attended,
either by the patient or by children in the house, the school
authorities are notified, and all children living in the house are
for a time excluded. The source of the milk supply, the occupation
of the inmates, home work, sanitary condition of the premises,
water supply, presence of animals, etc., are all investigated, and
a report made to me on the same day. The name of the laundry
is also ascertained, the proprietor is notified, and the sending of
clothes there is prohibited until the premises are free from
infection.
Disinfection of premises and articles which have been exposed
to infection is undertaken by the Sanitary Department.