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The attack rate for the year was 6.20 per 1,000 total births as
compared with a rate of 3.60 in England and Wales. The deaths
from puerperal sepsis numbered 2, giving a death rate per 1,000
total births of 0.65 as compared with 1.61 for England and Wales.
Puerperal Pyrexia.—During the year 66 cases were notified.
Sixty-four cases occurred in or were removed to hospital. The
attack-rate was 21.54 per 1,000 total births, as compared with
9.44 in England and Wales. The higher incidence of puerperal
pyrexia in Hackney as compared with the country as a whole is
due to some extent 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 the Council's Consultant Obstetricians were
utilised by general practitioners on four occasions 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.
Erysipelas.—There were 109 cases of erysipelas notified during
1935. This is equal to an attack-rate of 0.51 per 1,000 inhabitants
compared with 0.42 for England and Wales. Of the 109 cases
notified, 89 were removed to hospital.
There were 8 deaths certified to be due to erysipelas.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis.—During 1935 there were 5 cases of
this disease notified in the Borough; all the cases were removed to
hospital. Four deaths from this disease occurred during the year.
Poliomyelitis.—Seven cases of poliomyelitis were notified in
the Borough during 1935. All of the patients were removed to
hospital. No death from this disease occurred during the year.

* Information as to the result of treatment in two cases could not be obtained, as the mothers
and infants left the Borough and could not be traced.