0 relating to the puerperium (= the period after childbirth during which the uterus returns to its normal size): --
She starts off with the causes and control of puerperal sepsis in the home and in the hospital.
He adds that this increase in ante-natal supervision has coincided with a fall in the death-rate from puerperal sepsis from 1.7 to 1 per 1,000.
Of this number 221 were due to puerperal sepsis, which is a very infectious disease, or one-third of the total.
The death-rate per thousand births from puerperal sepsis and accidents in child-birth in 1902 was 4·6; last year it was only 3·57.
Take the case of a woman who is certified for puerperal insanity.
They are infantile mortality, maternal mortality from all causes, maternal mortality from puerperal sepsis, and tuberculosis.
I understand that serum for puerperal fever has been used in one of the hospitals referred to, but that its use has now been discontinued.
Particular attention was paid to typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and croup, influenza, pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer and other malignancies, and puerperal septicaemia.
