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33.
Enteric Fever.
Thirteen cases of Enteric Fever were notified during
the year, of whom one died.
Puerperal Fever.
Seventeen cases of Puerperal Fever (puerperal
sepsis) were notified during 1930 as compared with 23,
16, 16, and 15, during the preceding four years. The
incidence in 1930 was equivalent to 7.1 per 1,000 registered
births.
There were eight deaths from puerperal sepsis in
Fulham in 1930 compared with 7, 5, 2, and 3 deaths
during the four preceding years.
During the year Mr. Alexander Galletly, the Council's
Obstetric Specialist, was called in in consultation
in five cases of puerperal fever or pyrexia.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Puerperal Pyrexia is defined in the Public Health
(Notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia)
Regulations of 1926, as "any febrile condition, other
than a condition which is required to be notified under
the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Acts, occurring
in a woman within twenty-one days after child-birth or
miscarriage in which a temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit
(38° Centigrade) or more has been sustained during a
period of 24 hours or has recurred during that period."
Thirty-three cases were notified under the Regulations,
as compared with 51 during 1929.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
This is a purulent discharge from the eyes of an
infant commencing within 21 days of the date of its
birth, and 19 cases were notified during the year giving
a case rate of 8.03 per thousand births. This number is
less than during any of the previous four years as 32
cases were notified in the Borough in 1929, 38 in 1928,
33 in 1927 and 29 in 1926.