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miscarriage in which a temperature of 100.4º Fahrenheit
(38° Centigrade) or more has been sustained during
a period of 24 hours or has recurred during that period."
Fifty-one cases, the same as in 1928, were notified
under the Regulations, during the year under review.
Puerperal Fever.
Twenty-three cases of Puerperal Fever (puerperal
sepsis) were notified during 1929 compared with 10, 10,
15 and 21, during the preceding four years. The incidence
in 1929 was equivalent to 9.1 per 1,000 registered
births.
There were seven deaths from puerperal sepsis in
Fulham in 1929 compared wih 5, 2, 3, and 4 deaths
during the four preceding years.
During the year Mr. Alexander Galletly, the Council's
Obstetric specialist, was called in in consultation
in eight cases of puerperal pyrexia or puerperal fever.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Thirty-two cases were notified during the year,
compared with 38 in 1928 and 33 in 1927. The caserate
per 1,000 registered births for 1929 works out at
12.7. Nine of the infant affected were treated in
hospital.
All cases are visited by the Health Visitors in order
to ensure that the treatment, which is so necessary to
prevent impairment of vision or blindness is carried out