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 West Ham]
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Table XXX.
Notifications of puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia
Period | Puerperal fever | Puerperal pyrexia | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases | Removed to | Cases | Removed to | |||||
No. | Rate | hospital | No. | Rate | hospital | |||
No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | |||||
1896-1900 | 67 | 1.53 | 3 | 4.48 | — | — | — | — |
1901-1905 | 83 | 1.78 | 9 | 10.84 | — | — | — | — |
1906-1910 | 65 | 1.46 | 19 | 29.23 | — | — | — | — |
1911-1915 | 59 | 1.35 | 36 | 61.02 | — | — | — | — |
1916-1920 | 61 | 1.61 | 24 | 39.34 | — | — | — | — |
1921-1925 | 61 | 1.60 | 41 | 67.21 | — | — | — | — |
1926-1930 | 101 | 3.31 | 65 | 64.36 | 296 | 12.41 | 166 | 56.08 |
1931-1935 | 61 | 2.55 | 51 | 83.61 | 230 | 9.60 | 141 | 61.30 |
1921 | 8 | 0.97 | 5 | 62.50 | - | - | - | - |
1922 | 12 | 1.51 | 3 | 25.00 | — | — | — | - |
1923 | 16 | 2.05 | 14 | 87.50 | — | — | - | — |
1924 | 15 | 2.08 | 13 | 86.67 | — | - | — | _ |
1925 | 10 | 1.43 | 6 | 60.00 | — | — | — | — |
1926 | 20 | 2.98 | 13 | 65.00 | - | -_ | - | - |
1927 | 17 | 2.84 | 16 | 94.12 | 70 | 11.68 | 36 | 51.43 |
1928 | 27 | 4.43 | 17 | 62.96 | 94 | 15.41 | 46 | 48.94 |
1929 | 17 | 2.85 | 10 | 58.82 | 64 | 10.74 | 43 | 67.19 |
1930 | 20 | 3.45 | 9 | 45.00 | 68 | 11.73 | 41 | 60.29 |
1931 | 14 | 2.57 | 11 | 78.57 | 63 | 11.55 | 37 | 58.73 |
1932 | 14 | 2.73 | 11 | 78.57 | 47 | 9.16 | 28 | 59.57 |
1933 | 15 | 3.28 | 13 | 86.67 | 26 | 5.69 | 20 | 76.92 |
1934 | 10 | 2.24 | 8 | 80.00 | 46 | 10.28 | 29 | 63.04 |
1935 | 8 | 1.85 | 8 | 100.00 | 48 | 11.10 | 27 | 56.25 |
1936 | 17 | 3.92 | 15 | 88.24 | 44 | 10.15 | 33 | 75.00 |
1937 | 4 | 0.92 | 4 | 100.00 | 75 | 17.31 | 55 | 73.33 |
* The rates are given per 1,000 live births up to and including 1927. From 1928
onwards they are per 1,000 total (i.e. live and still) births.
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