Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.
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. | Duration | Cause. | No. of Cases. |
---|---|---|---|
Days. | |||
First | 3 | Undiagnosed | 1 |
Second | H | Retention of urine | 1 |
12 | Local infection | 1 | |
Third | 10 | Uterine infection | 1 |
6 | Local infection | 1 | |
8 | 1 | ||
9 | 1 | ||
2 | Undiagnosed | 1 | |
l1/2 | Local infection | 1 | |
Fifth | Non-suppurative mastitis | 1 | |
Seventh | 1 | ||
Eighth | 4 | 1 | |
1 | Throat infection | 1 | |
Ninth | 1 | Non-suppurative mastitis | 1 |
3/4 | 1 | ||
11 | 1 | ||
Eleventh | 6 † 11/2 | Suppurative mastitis Non-suppurative mastitis | 11 |
Twelfth | 28 | Suppurative mastitis | 1 |
2 † | 1 | ||
— | Cellulitis of breast | 1 | |
l 1/2 | Lymphangitis of breast | 1 | |
Thirteenth | 1 | Non-suppurative mastitis | 1 |
Fourteenth | 1 | Cellulitis of breast | 1 |
2 | Non-suppurative mastitis | 1 | |
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Sepsis rate in all cases—3.7 per cent.