[Report 1958] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.
- Exeter (England). City Council
- Date:
- 1958
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1958] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![There is no doubt that not all cases of pneumonia are notified and these figures do not give a true picture of the incidence of primary and influenzal pneumonia during the year. There were in fact 32 deaths assigned to pneumonia, only 4 of which were in notified cases. Ophthalmia Neonatorum, 1958. There were 2 cases in 1958 both born in Mowbray House Maternity Hospital. Pemphigus, 1958. There were 7 cases of pemphigus neonatorum notified in 1958. Puerperal Pyrexia, 1958. Cases Notified Cause Pathological Investigations Confine ment : Home Hospital ]4 Uterine 11 5 9 13 Breasts 4 8 5 6 Respiratory 1 o O 3 7 Urinary 7 1 6 7 Not known 5 5 2 2 Other 1 — 2 49 29 22 27 V” 49 There were 49 cases of Puerperal Pyrexia notified in 1958— less than half the number notified in 1957 (99). The decrease was general, no one heading, e.g. Respiratory being prominent. Notifications from Hospitals were much decreased. In 1957 the notifications Home:Hospital were 25:74, this year they are 22:27. Pathological investigations were carried out on 29 cases. The 2 ‘‘ other ” infections quoted were (1) Phlebitis, (2) Wound infection after Caesarean section. Apart from Pyrexia there has been a certain amount of minor apyrexial sepsis through- out the year and from April onwards our attention was focussed on infection with staphylococcus aureus. This awareness of the possibility of minor boils, septic fingers, etc. being a source of infection to the recentlv confined woman has resulted in cases being transferred either home or to the Isolation Hospital, (for delivery or soon after delivery) when the septic focus was dis- covered. How far this has affected the puerperal pyrexia rate](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29199360_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
