Puerperal Septicæmia
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Dr. GkddES presents the above admirable thesis based upon the fact that puerperal fever occurs more frequently in the practice of medical practitioners in Great Britain than in the practice of certified midwives, and one must confess that he has proved his case in this book. Puerperal fever, unfortunately, does not seem to get any less in its incidence, and it would appear that while the majority of general practitioners who attend confinement cases, also are attending industrial accidents with wounds, superficial and deep, teeming with pathogenic organisms that, with the growth of industrialism the incidence of puerperal fever will increase rather than diminish. His statistics and tables undoubtedly prove that urban industrial areas have a considerably higher puerperal fever rate than country areas, and that, in urban districts on the other hand
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