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based. It had been previously pointed out by the Principal
Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare of the Ministry
of Health (Dame Janet Campbell) in a Report on Maternal Mortality
which was issued in 1924, that whereas the Infantile
Mortality of the country had been markedly diminished, the
Maternal Mortality had not improved and was still as high as it
was twenty years ago, and about 4 per 1,000 women die in childbirth.
Many who do not succumb, it is stated, suffer from
impaired health as the result of conditions that could have been
prevented.
The Borough Council is empowered with the sanction of the
Minister of Health to make provision for the special treatment of
women suffering from Puerperal Pyrexia, for consultation with an
obstetric specialist, for skilled nursing or for institutional treatment
; and it is important, the Ministry state, that the authority
should do all that is possible to meet the request of medical
practitioners for special assistance for women suffering from
Puerperal Pyrexia which is, or is likely to be, serious in character,
in order that maternal mortality and morbidity from this cause
may be as far as possible prevented.
Arrangements have been made with Lady Florence Barrett,
M.D., M.S., to act as Consultant at a fee not exceeding £3 3s.
per consultation.
From the time the Regulations came into force until the end
of the year 25 cases were notified. 22 cases were removed to
Hospital.
Plague.—There were no notifications of plague in the Borough
during the year.
Cholera.—There were no notifications of Cholera in the
Borough during the year.
Erysipelas.—There were 59 cases of Erysipelas notified during
1926. This is equal to an attack-rate of 0.25 per 1,000