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The infant is then placed with a foster mother, and the
parent is found a suitable situation in domestic service.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
During the year 5 cases were notified as Puerperal
Pyrexia under the Public Health (Notification of Puerperal
Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926.
Immediate investigation was made into the circumstances
of each case, and a copy of the notification sent to
the County Medical Officer of Health.
The consultant, Dr. Andrew McAllister, was not summoned
during the year.
Of the five cases notified, two died, and the following
is a brief record of the fatal cases :—
Case 1. Age 40. Admitted on April 19th to the Kingston
and District Hospital for prolonged labour. She was
delivered of a stillborn male infant in hospital the same day.
Notified as Puerperal Pyrexia on April 24th and died on
April 26th. Cause of death, " Broncho-pneumonia—
parturition premature, stillborn male child, placenta
praevia."
Case 2. Age 39. Admitted to Kingston and District
Hospital on October 2nd. A diagnosis of partial placenta
prævia was made, and she had marked varicose veins in
both legs which were thrombosed. Delivery under a general
anaesthetic was performed on October 4th. Apart from the
condition of thrombosed veins, she progressed favourably
until October 8th, when her left ankle showed signs of
inflammation. By October 13th the ankle commenced to
suppurate, and on October 16th she died suddenly. The
cause of death was certified as " Pulmonary embolism,
femoral thrombosis, placenta praevia, parturition stillborn
child."
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.

Arrangements have been made with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board for the reception and treatment of cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum from the Borough at St.
Margaret's Hospital, Kentish Town, N.W.5.