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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Walthamstow 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
Temperatures are usually taken twice daily, but when there is
a rise of temperature, a record is made four-hourly.

Table: The standard adopted for the classification of Puerperal Pyrexia is that of the Ministry of Health, namely a temperature of 100.4 deg. or more sustained for twenty-four hours, or recurring within that period.

The standard adopted for the classification of Puerperal Pyrexia is that of the Ministry of Health, namely a temperature of 100.4 deg. or more sustained for twenty-four hours, or recurring within that period.

Day of onset.DurationCause.No. of Cases.
Days.
First3Undiagnosed1
SecondHRetention of urine1
„12Local infection1
Third10Uterine infection1
„6Local infection1
„8„ „1
„9„ „1
„2Undiagnosed1
„l1/2Local infection1
Fifth-Non-suppurative mastitis1
Seventh11„ „„ „1
Eighth4„ „1
„1Throat infection1
Ninth1Non-suppurative mastitis1
„3/4„ „1
„11„ „1
Eleventh6 † 11/2Suppurative mastitis Non-suppurative mastitis11
Twelfth28Suppurative mastitis1
„2 †„ „1
„—Cellulitis of breast1
„l 1/2Lymphangitis of breast1
Thirteenth1Non-suppurative mastitis1
Fourteenth1Cellulitis of breast1
„2Non-suppurative mastitis1
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Sepsis rate in all cases—3.7 per cent.