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Maternal Morbidity
During the year 11 cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified. There were no maternal
deaths and no deaths associated with abortion.
Graph B.
Comparison of Birth and Death Rates from 1944 to 1951.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
Certain new Regulations came into force in 1951, altering the methods of notification
of infectious disease.
The Public Health (Leprosy) Regulations, 1951, required that a medical practitioner
attending, or called on to visit, a person suffering from leprosy should notify the Chief
Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health by certificate on a prescribed form. The local
authority was instructed to send a copy of these Regulations to each medical practitioner
practising within the district, and all practitioners in Southall were duly notified before the
operative date, which was the 22nd June, 1951.
The Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951. These modified, to a slight degree, the
Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations of 1926, 1928 and 1939. Puerperal pyrexia continued to be
a notifiable disease, but the definition of the disease was altered, medical practitioners
being required to notify to the Medical Officer of Health any febrile condition occurring in
a woman in whom a temperature of ioo.4°F. (38°C.), or more, took place within fourteen
days of childbirth or miscarriage. The local authority was instructed to send a copy of
these Regulations to the general practitioners, and this was done before the operative date,
which was 1st August, 1951.
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