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Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Ten cases were notified during the year but in two
the diagnosis was not confirmed, one being a case of
tubercular meningitis while the other patient was
suffering from Measles.
Of the eight definite cases of cerebro-spinal fever,
four were in males and four in females.
The ages of notified patients varied from ten weeks
to 21 years.
Four of the cases proved fatal and in addition to
these deaths another was reported after a post-mortem
examination as having been due to this disease.
Puerperal Fever.
Eleven cases, the same number as in 1931, were
notified, and there were five deaths from puerperal
sepsis. The incidence in 1932 was equivalent to 4.99 per
thousand of the registered births (live and still-births).
The incidence for England and Wales was equal to 3.3
per thousand.
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 twentyone
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-seven cases were notified during 1932 as'
compared with 47 during 1931. In addition one case was