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Puerperal Fever and Pyrexias.

A classification is made of 219 cases notified as puerperal fever or puerperal pyrexia. Of these, 71 were local uterine infections; 47, pelvic or general peritonitis; 11, pelvic cellulitis; 20, septicaemia or pyaemia; 12, pyelitis, and 58, febrile conditions not due to infection of the genital tract. Fatal cases were all due to general peritonitis or blood infections and the general death-rate for infections of the genital tract is 21.4 per cent. Of 32 maternal deaths, 7 followed abortion; 11 occurred in primiparae, the preponderance of whom showed more or less severe trauma, and 13 in multipa…