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Food Poisoning.—No case of food poisoning was reported
to the Public Health Department.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.—In accordance
with the Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926, the Council have
appointed an obstetric physician to act as consultant in this
area. Facilities are also available for bacteriological diagnosis.
Hospital treatment is provided for at the following
institutions:—
(i) Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital Isolation
Block, Hammersmith;
(ii) Borough of Wimbledon Isolation Hospital;
(iii) Kingston and District Hospital.
It was only found necessary to call in the obstetric
consultant on one occasion, to see a patient who was subsequently
removed from a Maternity Home to the Isolation
Hospital for treatment.
Three cases of puerperal fever and seven cases of puerperal
pyrexia were notified, as compared with four cases of
puerperal fever and three cases of puerperal pyrexia in 1931.
Seven of the cases notified were removed to hospital for
treatment. Three of these patients were treated in the
Kingston and District Hospital, three cases in the Borough
of Wimbledon Isolation Hospital, and the remaining case at
the Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital Isolation Block,
Hammersmith. All these patients made good recoveries.
There was one death from puerperal sepsis, giving a
mortality rate equal to 1.47 per thousand of the total births.
This woman was treated in one of the large Maternity
Hospitals in London.
During the previous year there was no death from this
cause.
Pneumonia.—Twenty-eight cases of acute primary
pneumonia and thirty-three cases of acute influenzal pneumonia
were notified.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—One case of meningococcal meningitis
was notified and removed to the Isolation Hospital
for treatment. This patient, who was a boy aged fourteen
years, made a complete recovery.
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