London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The definition of puerperal pyrexia for notification purposes is "any
febrile condition occurring in a woman in whom a temperature of 100.4 degrees
Fahrenheit (38 degrees Centigrade) or more has occurred within fourteen days
after child-birth or miscarriage."
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