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Two of the three cases were removed to hospital. None of the
cases terminated fatally.
During the year 7 specimens of blood from persons suspected
to be suffering from enteric fever were submitted to Widal's test.
Three specimens of faeces and 4 specimens of urine were also
examined. All gave a negative result with the exception of one
specimen of faeces and one specimen of blood.
Continued Fever.—There were no notifications of continued
fever in the Borough during the year.
Typhus Fever.—There was not any notification of typhus fever
in the Borough during the year.
Puerperal Fever.—There were 21 cases of puerperal fever
notified during 1934; all of these occurred in or were removed to
hospital.
None of these patients lived in a house in which there had
occurred recently a case of scarlet fever.
The attack rate for the year was 6.76 per 1,000 total births as
compared with a rate of 4.0 in England and Wales. The deaths
from puerperal sepsis numbered 3, giving a death rate per 1,000
total births of 0.96 as compared with 1.95 for England and Wales.
Puerperal Pyrexia.—During the year 80 cases were notified.
Seventy-five cases occurred in or were removed to hospital. The
attack-rate was 25.78 per 1,000 total births, as compared with
9.6 in England and Wales. The higher incidence of puerperal
pyrexia in Hackney as compared with the country as a whole is
due in large measure to the allocation to this Borough of cases
occurring among unmarried women having no permanent address,
who are admitted for confinement to the Salvation Army Mothers'
Hospital, Clapton, from Rescue Homes in the Borough. Further,
many of the notifications are received from institutions where, of
course, the precautions taken would naturally result in the detection
of pyrexia in the early stages of the lying-in period.
The services of one of the Council's Consultant Obstetricians
were utilised by a general practitioner on one occasion during the
year.
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.